I’ve neglected this blog for a year while the action has continued on Facebook and Twitter -- and also on SpliceToday.com, where my latest w...

Some entertainment options worth considering here in NYC, especially for the politically-inclined, to keep you occupied while I am busy off...

Well, the first person I saw sing professionally in New York City after I moved here, Chris Cornell, has died (he, along with Soundgarden, ...

The fashion site Refinery29.com did a two-minute video (posted Jan. 20, 2017) of people of varied political persuasions getting along well e...

Seventeen quick thoughts (each with a link) as we survey the end of the post-Cold War Republican Party. •TRUMP: IN. This week might...

I’m pleased John Stossel, who wrote the foreword to my book Libertarianism for Beginners , also wrotea column about the book. (And remembe...

Celebrate July Fourth (at any time) the rockabilly way, by listening to me  -- Todd Seavey, author of Libertarianism for Beginners -- inte...

In my final SpliceToday column (for now) after a full year of daily columns, I admit which parts of the contemporary libertarian movement I...

Despite the endless temptation people from Alvin Toffler and Newt Gingrich to Neil deGrasse Tyson and Alex Jones feel to predict the future,...

From Star Trek’s Khan to Buck Rogers’ Kane to the Simpsons’ Kang, a lineage of racism has given us some fine science fiction, as I explain i...

There is only one way to make sense of what J.J. Abrams did to the original Star Trek timeline and what he did to the “Kelvin timeline” from...

The pattern I’ve noted of Roland Emmerich’s film projects warning us that space aliens may be tied to climate change continues, even in a li...

Prior to my final week of daily columns on SpliceToday, I pause to write a celebration of Brexit .

We would do well to stop denying the fact that the sociopaths and jerks tend to get on top in politics, media, business, and social life -- ...

For all its flaws, the twenty-first century is clearly an era in which no small handful of celebrities, politicians, or moguls can hope to m...