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Contributing Editor, TCS

Glenn Harlan Reynolds is contributing editor of TCS where his special feature on technology and public policy called "Reynolds' Wrap" appears each week. He is a law professor at the University of Tennessee.

His special interests are law and technology and constitutional law issues, and his work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including numerous law reviews, the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Law and Policy in International Business, Jurimetrics, and the High Technology Law Journal. Professor Reynolds has also written in the New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal, among others. He is the co-author of Outer Space: Problems of Law and Policy. He created and writes for the influential Instapundit website.

Reynolds' most most recent book is called The Appearance of Impropriety: How the Ethics Wars Have Undermined American Government, Business and Society, (The Free Press, 1997) coauthored with Peter W. Morgan.

Articles by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Keep It Quiet
06 Dec 2006
I've used this column in the past as a means of issuing impassioned pleas to product designers. Now it's time for another, at least as heartfelt as the ones in the past: Please, keep things quiet. Or at least give me the option of doing so.
A Second American Civil War?
29 Nov 2006
Is America in danger of civil war? Not immediately, perhaps, but famed science fiction writer Orson Scott Card thinks that we're in enough danger that he's authored a cautionary tale entitled Empire that's set in more-or-less present times.
Is Democracy Like Sex?
15 Nov 2006

By jumbling up genes every generation, sexual reproduction forces parasites to try to adapt to a moving target, giving the host organisms an advantage that justifies all the metabolic energy they put into this troublesome form of passing on one's genes. Elections play the same role for the body politic that sex plays for the body physical.


Why We Should Worry More About Vote Fraud
07 Nov 2006
Conspiracy theories and fear of fraud are more common among respectable members of both parties than they were a few years ago, and I think there's reason to fear it's getting worse.
Trust, But No Way to Verify?
31 Oct 2006
Trust in the government has been declining for years, but it's nothing compared to what we'll see if a majority, or even a sizable plurality, of Americans conclude that the entire voting process is rigged.
Frontiers in Germicidal Living
25 Oct 2006
There was nearly a political scandal last week, over hand sanitizer.
We're All Soldiers of Fortune Now
18 Oct 2006
The kind of survival-oriented disaster preparedness thinking that once flourished in subcultures like Soldier of Fortune seems to be going mainstream. And why is that?
Beam Me Up, Osama
11 Oct 2006
Teleportation of the Star Trek variety is a long way off. But even without spooky technology, natural borders are less and less secure. Glenn Reynolds on the implications for the future - and the present.
Jet You
04 Oct 2006
Nobody values flexible flying arrangements more than members of Congress, who are always commuting to and from their districts. This may be one of the rare circumstances where the politics favor innovators over existing industries.
A Pebble's Ripple Effect
27 Sep 2006
One of the most promising technologies is the pebble bed nuclear reactor.
Voting Early and Often
19 Sep 2006
The problem is real, even though it's often shouted about by nutty conspiracy-theorist types.
Keep Your Grubby Mitts Off My Hard Drive
13 Sep 2006
As much as people in the entertainment business go on about their intellectual property, they're pretty cavalier with other people's personal property.
The Indy Music Comeback
06 Sep 2006
What the MySpace move means for the future of independent music.
FX May Soon Be Short for Faux
30 Aug 2006
The accumulation of episodes of fakery in recent weeks, both sophisticated and crude, leads me to believe that we'll see faked video of professional quality becoming a commonplace political item in the pretty near future.
21st Century Politics as YouTube Politics
21 Aug 2006
The danger for political campaigns -- and the rest of us -- is that the Web, and digital photography and video, make phony or unfair charges easier. What's the solution? Glenn Reynolds explores.
Don't Trust If They Won't Verify
15 Aug 2006
I had hoped that increased scrutiny from bloggers would make the press more honest, but so far there's no sign of that. Can a free press survive if the public concludes that it's in the business of purveying politically motivated propaganda on behalf of civilization's enemies?
Systems Breakdown
02 Aug 2006
21st Century disaster response? We're not even close.
The Long Tail is Wagging the Dog
19 Jul 2006
Big businesses -- especially big media businesses -- seem to be sluggish, but the economy is booming. Why?
Rebooting Your Doctor
12 Jul 2006
Andy Kessler has worked in Silicon Valley for a long time. He's seen the way that improving technology can lower costs and increase capabilities. Now he says that it's time for silicon to do for medicine what it's done for so many other fields. Is it possible?
The Silver Bullet Fallacy
06 Jul 2006
Technologies don't have to provide a silver bullet to be worthwhile, or even revolutionary.