Plays are frequently infected with ideas that came from actors or even sound engineers. Some Shakespeare scholars wonder whether some of the Bard's lines came from onstage improvisations by actors.

When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.

Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.

If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human beings think and act.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.