Amir Taheri discusses a new book published by al Qaeda and released in the Arab world that calls “American democracy” the greatest threat to Islam: The author of “The Future of Iraq and The Arabian Peninsula After The Fall of Baghdad” is Yussuf al-Ayyeri, one of Osama bin Laden’s closest …

Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of the indispensable Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity and the forthcoming The Anarchist in the Library: How Peer-to-Peer Networks Are Transforming Politics, Culture, and the Control of Information is writing a series, a “five-part panorama of the implications of …

My son Chris wrote this review – I forgot to post it, like a douchebag. On Tuesday the 22nd of July I went to the concert event of the summer, Ozzfest, at Blossom near Cleveland. That was the greatest day in my 16 years of life. I had many new …

A new Forrester Research study released yesterday says the physical media of CDs and DVDs will drift away: Hollywood will win the war against illegal downloading but the battlefield will be littered with casualties, including the DVD and CD formats as physical means of distributing video and audio, according to …

I am not taken in with the automotive mystique. I like a nice, clean, safe, reliable car that doesn’t suck, but beyond that I don’t much care. I am interested in good audio in the car, though, simpky because I am interested in good audio everywhere. Here is an engrossing …

Two seemingly unrelated bits of news are focusing attention on the value of physical CDs vs. digital downloads: Universal Music Group announced the reduction of their CD prices effective October 1, and an iTunes customer is testing the legality of reselling a digital music file purchased over the Internet: George …

UMG (not to be included in the NBC-Universal merger) has slashed their CD prices – this is exactly the right move: In a move intended to stem illegal file-sharing and drive consumers back to retail, the world’s largest record company has instituted a $12.98 MSRP list price on all front-line …

The 2003 Shortlist Finalists have been announced: Black Keys, Bright Eyes, Cat Power, Cody Chestnutt, Floetry, Interpol, Damien Rice, Sigur Ros, The Streets and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. INTERPOL, BRIGHT EYES, CAT POWER, DAMIEN RICE AND BLACK KEYS CONFIRMED TO PERFORM AT 2003 SHORTLIST CONCERT ON OCTOBER 5TH MTV2 TO BROADCAST …

TechTV is looking for “people of various opinions and from various demographics” for a televised debate September 12. Does this mean mixed-race schizophrenics are most likely to get in? From the rise of Napster and the hottest P2P apps to the Recording Industry Association of America’s subpoenas, TechTV brings you …

With the second anniversary just a week away, I find myself reluctantly starting to think about the horror once again. Whether you agree with the wisdom of the war in Iraq or not, this is a fascinating reexamination of the Western left intelligensia’s response to 9/11 by Geoffrey Wheatcroft in …