And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B.

Money corrupts the process of reasoning.

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.

Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.