Author Archives: Timothy B Lee

Scott Woolley of Fortune made my day by writing this flattering profile of yours truly: Much as libertarians argue that supporting freedom in both the bedroom and the boardroom is not only a viable political philosophy but a logically consistent … Continue reading →

I get what Julian, Radley, and Megan are saying, and in principle I agree with them. A fair-minded reading of the constitution and the debates that surrounded its enactment makes it pretty clear that the founders’ goal was to create … Continue reading →

Last night I wrote a slightly hyperbolic tweet about the Anonymous denial of service attacks, and I’ve gotten a surprising amount of pushback on it. So I thought I’d expand on my thinking here. In a distributed denial of service … Continue reading →

Reihan responds. His thoughts are, as always, worth reading in full. But let me just quickly comment on this: But my sense is that there is an upper bound on the number of foreigners that U.S. citizens will welcome to … Continue reading →

I have a lot of respect for my friend Reihan Salam, but boy was this frustrating to read: As I understand it, the DREAM Act implicitly tells us that I should value the children of unauthorized immigrants more than the … Continue reading →

Grad school has kept me too busy to do a lot of blogging recently, but I tomorrow night we’ll be doing on of our periodic chats here at Bottom-Up. My guest will be Stephen Smith of the excellent Market Urbanism … Continue reading →

Over at the Technology Liberation Front in recent weeks Adam Thierer has been doing a series of posts about Tim Wu’s new book, The Master Switch. Adam wasn’t a fan. Wu himself jumped in with a response, where he focused … Continue reading →

I know I said I’d write about Google next, but I wanted to comment on the discussion in the comments to Luis’s post on open UIs. Here’s Bradley Kuhn, executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy: I think you may … Continue reading →

As usual, I agree with pretty much everything Luis Villa has to say about yesterday’s post here: Tim makes the assumption that open projects can’t have strong, coherent vision- that “[t]he decentralized nature of open source development means that there’s … Continue reading →

On his Surprisingly Free podcast last week, Jerry Brito had a great interview with Chicago law professor Joseph Isenbergh about the competition between open and closed systems. As we’ve seen, there’s been a lot of debate recently about the iPhone/Android … Continue reading →