Brendan I. Koerner

Financial woes dogged Stewart Wilson throughout the summer of 1996. A Naval petty officer in Jacksonville, Florida, Wilson was in the midst of a costly… more

Your first thought is, "Can this be the scourge of Microsoft?" Lawrence Lessig lopes into the Stanford Law School cafeteria wearing a shirt-and-sweater ensemble straight out of the J. Crew catalog, circa 1994, and wire-rim eyeglasses that give him an air of debate-club geekiness. Clean-shaven, lanky, and younger-looking than his 39 years, he hardly seems mature enough to be a tenured professor of law, to say nothing of inspiring such intense emotions among Redmond's battle-hardened zillionaires. And what kind of… more

Daily coverage of the Microsoft antitrust trial was depressingly predictable. Reporters assigned to the case can't be blamed for churning out pabulum, however, for both… more

When former antagonists Napster and Bertelsmann made friends a few months back, many assumed that the war between copyright and technology was over; that a workable scheme for protecting Intellectual Property in new media was on the horizon. Not so, argues Brendan Koerner: efforts… more

Legal pundits regard David Boies as the digital era's Clarence Darrow, a go-for-the-jugular charmer who could explain HTML to a Neanderthal.

Mr. Boies was, of course, on Al… more

When I worked in the New York bureau of U.S. News & World Report, the fax machine was constantly spewing out self-congratulatory pabulum from high-tech firms. … more

Every PC user is familiar with the notorious "blue screen of death," the azure void that appears when Windows crashes. And even amateur geeks recognize the ubiquitous "Fatal Error!" … more

We'll never know who pawned that copy of Angela's Ashes at a New York bookstore, whether the person was male or female, minor or… more

Tuckered out after three days of prayer and sermons, attendees at the National Evangelist Workshop this summer thought they could slip out of Las Vegas with souls unscathed. In a … more

The building at 4500 Southgate is indistinguishable from the cookie-cutter offices that dot the outskirts of Dulles Airport in Virginia. But beyond a phalanx of security… more