The late British anarchist, Colin Ward. Reason magazine's Hit & Run blog has a post up noting the passing of Colin Ward, a British left-anarchist. I'm especially sorry that this is my first encounter with Ward, since he apparently was best known...

Explaining the massive hurdles you'd have to overcome to impose a "rational" controlled society to people -- the sheer impossibility of substituting government planning for the values and preferences of millions of people -- is often a lost...

There's been lots of justified concern in recent years that the federal government -- that crazy uncle in the attic -- has broken free of its restraints and is smashing the crockery and scaring the kids. Between George W. Bush's police state and Bara...

Science fiction author and marine biologist Peter Watts faces charges after he was apparently assaulted by U.S. Border Patrol officers.It's not a dystopia if it's actually happening to you.At least, that's what Canadian science fiction writer and ma...

Deputy Adam Stoddard helped himself to attorney Joanne Cuccia's files. (Photo from security footage) On October 19 of this year, Maricopa County, Arizona, Detention Officer Adam Stoddard was caught by surveillance cameras helping himself to a docum...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi celebrates the pasage of yet another bill that will threaten Americans with fines and imprisonment. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Whether you support or oppose the health-care bill that passed in the House of Representatives ove...

Sex offender registry: Your name here?Earlier this year, the Office of the Inspector general at the U.S. Department of Justice warned that the oh-so-popular sex offender lists maintained around the country, intended to track the predators among us wh...

Some years ago, a physician told me about a colleague who was stopped at the side of the road in upstate New York by a police officer who appeared to be having a bad day. After enduring an extended bout of verbal abuse and posturing from the officer,...