This week I’m guest-blogging for Megan McArdle at the Atlantic. Here I take John McCain to task for his nonsensical position on warrantless wiretapping, and here I talk about the economics of free. Check it out at Megan’s blog, which you should really be reading whether I’m there or not.
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.