Month April 2011

Legalize online poker and tax it

Americans spent $16 billion last year on online poker, more than they spent on going to the movies. Poker player and journalist Marc Cooper says the government should legalize, regulate, and tax online poker rather than trying to shut it…

In praise of Marx

The Chronicle of Higher Education There is a sense in which the whole of Marx’s writing boils down to several embarrassing questions: Why is it that the capitalist West has accumulated more resources than human history has ever witnessed, yet…