A collection of interesting news and commentary pieces I’ve come across this week, as well as some useful information and recommendations. See Program Notes, below, for all the news stories, etc., I plan to discuss.
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Program Notes
The US Has Banned Laptops And Tablets On Flights From Major Middle Eastern Airports
Geert Wilders Is No Hero Of Free Speech HT Robert Mayhew and Greg Salmieri
Silencing Is Golden: The Chilling Dogma of AntiNormalization HT Sunny Lohmann
North Korea conducts failed missile launch
Judge OKs warrant to reveal who searched a crime victim’s name on Google HT Mark Nitikman
EasyCrypt: How it Works HT Gayle Parker
How Aristotle Created the Computer HT Benjamin Chayes
Boom Supersonic raises $33M to build the fastest airplane for passenger flight
Good Schools Aren’t the Secret to Israel’s High-Tech Boom HT Brian Yoder
Adam Smith on the Absurdity of Protectionist Trade Policy
California’s Bullet Train may have received final, fatal fiscal hit HT Mark Nitikman
Sad News: Illinois Fails To Pass Measure Making Obama’s Birthday Legal Holiday
The Financial Crisis and The Free Market Cure
The Oxford Comma: Great For Listing, Pontificating, And Winning Court Cases HT Brian Yoder, Mark Nitikman
18 Minutes HT Robert Begley
HT Trevor Nielsen