So there you are, in the Target game aisle, and you see one of those games you’ve heard about from friends: Settlers of Catan. It comes in a sturdy-looking box that’s taller and has a smaller footprint than your Monopoly board, and when you pick it up for a closer look you realize it’s a…


Gamer Girl
My older daughter Molly’s love affair with Monopoly started when she was seven. I blame the fact that we had two strategy books about Monopoly in the house. The fun part of Monopoly is the wheeling and dealing, trying to construct a trade that will be sufficiently beneficial to the other person that they’ll actually…

"Bar-ly" Defensible
It always amazes me that the field of Antitrust has any practicing lawyers in it at all. Not because it’s a particularly complicated field, nor because it’s particularly unexciting since, in practice, the field is substantially less complicated than Administrative Law, and, as Microsoft in the ’90s and Apple more recently have shown, there’s plenty…

"Get Out of Jail for Swede" Card
Swedes, Asians . . . humans, they all look alike.