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Sage Publications, August 2008
Entry on Prohibition. A brief survey of the causes leading to the Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition itself, its role in the 1932 election, the Twenty-First Amendment, and beyond.
Is Egalitarianism Instinctual?
TCS Daily, 10 March 2006
Utopianism may be based on a faulty definition of what it means to be "egalitarian."
The City Below Sea Level
TCS Daily, 3 September 2005
New Orleans and how it got that way. Part of TCS's coverage of the Hurricane Katrina aftermath.
Don't Call It a Comeback
TCS Daily, 19 August 2005
Some biologists want to "reintroduce" megafauna like elephants and lions into the American West.
Megafauna Murder Mystery
TCS Daily, 3 August 2005
A new economic theory of Ice Age extinctions is at odds with current paleontological thinking.
Culture Wars at the Park Service
TCS Daily, 25 July 2005
Recent restructuring at the NPS's Cultural Resources department has led to protest resignations.
Trade and Troglodytes
TCS Daily, 4 April 2005
A trio of economists believes trade among early humans was vital to outcompeting Neanderthals.
Thompson, What Am I Going to Do With You?
TCS Daily, 24 February 2005
"We all understood that their work and their lives and their long-range professional Fate would be a lot easier if I went out on a slick Ducati motorcycle one night and never came back."
The First Free State Project
Reason, December 2004
The brief, tumultuous history of Franklin. Sidebar to Revolt of the Porcupines! by Brian Doherty.
The Politics of Dead 'Native Americans'
TCS Daily, 23 November 2004
Will amending the NAGPRA definition of "Native American" help or hinder archaeologists?
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TCS Daily, 29 October 2004
The impact on anthropology of the diminutive Homo floresiensis cannot be overstated.
Invasion of the Kennewick Men
TCS Daily, 24 February 2004
The legal precedents set by the Kennewick Man case will impact underwater archaeology.
The New Environmentalism
TCS Daily, 27 January 2003
Preserving historic sites is a noble cause but they must serve a modern purpose.
Tempest in a Coffeepot:
Starbucks Invades the World
Reason, January 2003
If the widespread consumption of coffee, which has been around for 600 years, hasn't led to global cultural homogenization, then how could Starbucks do so?