Outside the Beltway

The decision to split Netflix into two companies makes no sense. Unless you look behind the scenes.

In a truly bizarre move, Netflix is spinning off the DVD-by-mail business that built them into an international brand and going stream-only. Those wishing to keep getting movies will have to sign on to something called Qwikster.

Paul Krugman seems to believe that something like the bubble economy we enjoyed until it burst in 2008 could be had again if only our leaders were sufficiently bold.

Ivar Giaever, the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, has resigned from the American Physical Society over its declaration that “global warming is occurring” and that “the evidence is incontrovertible.”

The Hoover Institution’s Henry I. Miller, MD takes to National Review to take on the subject of “Gardasil and the GOP.”

In its upcoming term, the Supreme Court will examine the question whether police can track people via GPS without first obtaining a warrant.

What we think the ideal society looks like depends a lot on what kind of society we live in.

Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet

America is discovering that throwing money at an industry in the hope it will create jobs doesn’t work.

Governor, that analogy does not mean what you think it means.

Derek Thompson argues that “the real reason Americans fell so squeezed” is our obsession with productivity.

The Solyndra case is a classic example of what’s wrong with “government investment.”

The idea that students raised in the Information Age are therefore savvy about information is a dangerous but pervasive myth.

Contrary to myth, the college classroom is a rapidly evolving place.

The Western fetish for turning cheap, efficient food into expensive, inefficient fuel is threatening the food supply–as is the European superstition against genetically modified foods.

The failure of a solar energy firm in California is raising questions about a centerpiece of the Administration’s economic policy.

Arthur C. Clarke predicts the future on a 1964 BBC Horizon program.

How hard is it to schedule one measly jobs speech?

Tim Cook is succeeding Steve Jobs as head of the world’s biggest technology company. Does it matter that he’s gay?

Details of the President’s jobs plan are starting to leak out, and they’re not looking impressive.

Madison went to Philadelphia wanting to increase the power of the central government over the states (quite a bit, in fact).

A case pending in Maryland raises the question of when boorish online behavior crosses the line from protected speech to criminal act.

Before achieving astounding success, Steve Jobs had to experience disappointment and failure.

Success in Libya does not make the American mission any less unjustified than it was on the day President Obama announced it.

The climate change deniers aren’t going to like what Chris Christie has to say.

It pays to read a scientific study before commenting on it.

Like Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry has something to say about evolution today and he handled it very differently.

Rick Perry’s vision of capitalism doesn’t exactly comply with what Adam Smith had in mind.

Jon Huntsman just tweeted, “To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.”

The IBM PC was introduced 30 years ago. Has its time passed?

Through 20 years of effort, we’ve successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember but easy for computers to guess.

Will the Fed announce another round of Quantitative Easing?

Watching the news and reading the op-eds makes it clear: America is doomed.

We are being warned once again that the Postal Service is on the verge of financial collapse. There really is only one solution.