Review: Devs

Being an eight-part series with a total runtime of six and a half hours, Devs might not be an instant sci-fi classic—it’s packed with too much mind-trippy exotica to take …

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Sticking It to the Man

I haven’t read The Presidential Plot, but I want to. According to the new anthology Sticking It to the Man, Stanley Johnson’s 1969 novel features a CIA so fed up with …

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Brickbat: Shifting the Costs

With the market for recyclables in the doldrums, some Maine cities have opted to end their curbside recycling programs because the costs of those programs exceed the costs of just …

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How to Spend a Trillion Dollars

Suppose that a government has a trillion dollars that it wishes to use to subsidize private spending toward some objective. For example, it might want to launch a massive campaign …

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Forum Shopping is Rational

The Texas Attorney General is often criticized for forum shopping–that is, filing cases in specific courts where there is a high probability of drawing a specific judge. This criticism is …

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