Editor’s note: Jim Manzi is the author of “Uncontrolled: the Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society.” He is the founder and chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies, a global provider of predictive analytics software. Manzi is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at...

Facebook’s IPO will be good news for a whole host of reasons. In particular, users should be happy that the company will become a much more public-facing entity.

Yes, we need to reduce dishonesty and corruption among our corporations, but we should look to our political class as well.

Senator Carl Levin says that Facebook is exploiting a tax loophole in order to avoid paying taxes to the government. But Facebook is a textbook case of win-win-win: the company's creators get rich, society gets the benefit of an innovative communications platform, and the U.S. Treasury gets billions in new revenues.

Eliminating tax subsidies for major energy companies is a bad idea. Singling out big American energy firms for this kind of treatment is abusive and a "glaring violation of the rule of law."

Brad Wilcox and Kathryn Sharpe of the University of Virginia have taken a fascinating fresh look at sectors of the economy most influenced by marriage and fertility.

Read Nick Schulz's primer on skilled immigration, which explains the economic benefits from reform to the United States.

Many of the critics of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and other legislation seeking to combat intellectual property violations on the Internet, say they are fighting efforts to “censor” the web. SOPA is many things, but if words still have meaning it cannot be fruitfully described as censorship.