If the phrase “Choose Life” sounds vaguely familiar to you, you may have read it on the road. Though simple, the phrase is stirring significant controversy because it appears on state-owned, driver-selected specialty license plates. Currently, drivers in seventeen states can decorate their vehicles with “Choose Life” plates. In many states, the “Choose Life” plates [...]
In his Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle remarked that behavior that is “unjust . . . becomes more unjust as it is practised on closer friends. It is more shocking, e.g., to rob a companion of money than to rob a fellowcitizen, to fail to help a brother than a stranger, and to strike one’s father than [...]
As the use of patents has become commonplace in the software industry, concerns about their propriety have remained surprisingly strong. It is easy to understand why those who were late to develop effective patenting strategies would oppose software patents in the mid-1990s, when patenting began to spread broadly through the industry. However, despite the widespread [...]
There will be, doubtless, the usual outcry from circles self-styled artistic and literary over the fining of the two women who edit and publish The Little Review for printing in it a presentation of life in Dublin as seen by a writer by the name of Joyce—a work to which,
for reasons few except himself are [...]
