On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
I'm at AlwaysOn's Stanford Summit today, and I'll be blogging a bit about my impressions of the conference and the many topics that are being covere…
In my current column in CIO Insight, href="http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2159182,00.asp">“The Pointless Privacy Debate” I write that t…
Are beauty ideals influenced by race, history and geopolitics? In 2006, there were 11 million cosmetic surgeries performed in the United States which constitut…
An engrossing, wrenching and tender documentary film, PRAYING WITH LIOR introduces Lior Liebling, also called "the little rebbe." Lior has Down syndro…
Manufacturing Dissent is a controversial, well-rounded portrait of Michael Moore the man, and how he uses documentaries to affect political change. This “muckra…
I just traded emails with Paul Margie, a friend from college who now works at the United Nations Foundation. He's set up several projects funded by Ted Tur…
I've wanted to post some thoughts arising from Larissa MacFarquhar's article on Obama ever since it came out in the May 7 New Yorker. It offers some pa…
Let me clarify: '102(b)' refer to a portion the US statute for patentability of inventions, and '401(k)' refers to the ubiquitous retirement ac…
Adam Cohen in yesterday's Times: "Given how intent the president is on expanding his authority, it is startling to recall how the Constitution’s framer…
I found this piece by Mohsin Hamid in the Washington Post over the weekend particularly insightful (not only because it begins with a focus on my hometown.) An…
CIS fellow and newly-arrived Tulane law professor Elizabeth Townsend Gard was profiled recently as an innovator in the legal education field, and specifically f…
...he comes back and says something nuanced: "...most political and social disputes grow out of differing theories about the self, and I find Hofstadter’s…