Archive for January, 2010

Posted on January 28, 2010 - by Aaron Ross Powell

5 (Bad) Reasons to Think the iPad Sucks

Yesterday Apple debuted its long awaited, much anticipated iPad. And the reaction around the web hasn’t been what Apple probably hoped. On the one hand, it’s easy to be disappointed when the reality of this astronomically hyped device doesn’t live up the second coming expectations, but it’s also worth nothing that many of the most [...]

Posted on January 21, 2010 - by Aaron Ross Powell

Citizens United and Those Dastardly Labor Unions

The United States Supreme Court rolled back decades of campaign finance restrictions today, handing down a decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that

upends the court’s precedent that corporations may not use their profits to support or oppose candidates, and it rejects a large portion of the so-called McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act that the [...]

Posted on January 5, 2010 - by Aaron Ross Powell

Communitarians Still Don’t Get It

I continue to believe that the communitarian critique of libertarianism (or liberalism, as it is often called in political philosophy) is fundamentally flawed. As a system for understanding the role of the state, it is based upon misconceptions that undercut its whole mission and lead to the conclusion that communitarianism is simply authoritarianism with a [...]