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10 Nov 2006, 3:18 pm
Powerline makes some suggestions for our newn Iraq policy: To analyze this question, we need to identify the reasons we have remained in Iraq for the past few years. I can think of five: (1) to avoid a humiliating Mogadishu-style defeat that will embolden our enemies, (2) to prevent parts of Iraq from becoming a base for anti-American terrorists, as Afghanistan was under the Taliban, (3) to prevent Iran from becoming the dominant player in portions of Iraq, (4) to prevent Iraqis from killing each… [read post]
20 Jan 2007, 11:38 am
Berman: Originalism and Its Discontents It is a fun group of papers -- and others are expected from Mike [read post]
22 Feb 2016, 11:42 am
Over at Law and Liberty, Mike Rappaport argues that my predictions about how liberal constitutional theory [read post]
4 Oct 2013, 6:25 am
Related: Michael Greve, John Yoo and Mike Rappaport on rethinking administrative law and the era of deference [read post]
21 Nov 2025, 9:30 pm
McGinnis and Mike Rappaport object to what they consider Jill Lepore’s “particularly shabby [read post]
19 Jul 2011, 2:28 pm
How to think about the new fracking technology that holds so much promise for addressing our energy needs, but is decried by environmentalists. Richard Epstein has some sensible thoughts. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 9:55 pm
New research from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston indicates that meditating regularly can actually change our brain structure for the better, and in just a few months. The small study, published last month in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, tracked 16 people who took a course on mindfulness-based stress reduction - a type of meditation that, besides focusing your attention, includes guided relaxation exercises and easy stretching - and practiced for about 30 minutes a day. After eight… [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 4:34 pm
Makes it to the New York Times (but only in John Tierney's column): "Anywhere in the world that social psychologists see women or minorities underrepresented by a factor of two or three, our minds jump to discrimination as the explanation," said Dr. Haidt, who called himself a longtime liberal turned centrist. "But when we find out that conservatives are underrepresented among us by a factor of more than 100, suddenly everyone finds it quite easy to generate alternate… [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 9:59 pm
This past weekend, the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism at the University of San Diego held its second annual Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference. From my perspective, it was a great event. The list of papers and commentators are here, and in the near future, a video of the conference will be available. One of the conference participants was Stanley Fish, who also has a blog at the New York Times. Here is his take on the conference. Cross Posted at The Originalism Blog. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 6:08 pm
The New York Times has a quite interesting retrospective on Apple Computer -- something that the Times does well. The accompanying New York Times articles that report on Apple developments at the time they occurred are quite fun to read. Here is one example, reporting on the release of the first Ipod: But while industry analysts said the device appeared to be as consumer friendly as the company said it was, they also pointed to its relatively limited potential audience, around seven million owners… [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 11:46 pm
Want you to help them. Not me, not in a million years! [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 3:05 pm
What an amazing story the development of in vitro fertilization is! The scientists here had to fight against government, religion, and the media, but they persisted. The New York Times tells the story, which has much to instruct us with. First, let us not forget the dangers to freedom from government funding of science (especially when such funding crowds out private funding): Dr. Edwards's research proved too controversial for the Medical Research Council, a government funding agency that is… [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 12:01 am
More government failure and market failure (although the market failure itself may be induced by government limits on liability, which causes moral hazard). This Reason article explains some of it. It is getting a bit familiar. I will never miss Bush -- let us not forget that his incompetence got us much of this -- but it is getting harder and harder to take the Obama Administration. Two excerpts from the Reason article: We have learned that the oil could have been skimmed early on so that very… [read post]
3 Jul 2010, 12:06 pm
One of the commentators to my prior post on the financil crisis wrote: It is fantastic to see a traditional conservative leave the (simplistic) Fannie Mae paradigm. Of course the government played a role, but the private sector behaved without regard for anything beyond the next bonus. Joseph Cassano was ultimately fired from AIG, but he kept the more than $300 million he made at AIG. It's interesting, though, seeing conservatives spin Wall Street's behavior. "Wall Street was simply… [read post]
11 Apr 2010, 12:01 am
Of course, I don't know. But the New York Times lists 5 contenders: Merrick Garland, Diane Wood, Elena Kagan, Jennifer Granholm, and Janet Napolitano. Here is my analysis. Garland is disqualified for being too old (57) and being a white male. He is just there to rebut the claim that Obama won't consider white males. Diane Wood is also largely disqualified for being too old (59), although she does have a small chance. Napolitano is gone because of her comments following the crotch bomber… [read post]
20 May 2008, 12:01 am
While it is widely believed that inequality has grown in the last decade, this belief may be based on a mistaken measure of inequality. Steven Levitt writes about an article written by his two colleagues, Christian Broda and John Romalis: Inequality has not grown over the last decade â€â [read post]
18 Nov 2006, 5:38 pm
The passing of Milton Friedman was a sad day for liberty. Friedman was not just a Nobel Prize winning economist or the father of modern day monetarism. He was the leading spokesmen for a libertarian political theory and one of its best practitioners. To me, Friedman and Hayek stood together as two giants leading the way down a path of liberty. I still remember first reading Capitalism and Freedom in 1978. I had been exposed to some libertarian works, but reading… [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 12:11 am
John Harrison, Doug Kmiec, Gary Lawson, Nelson Lund, John Manning, Michael McConnell, John McGinnis, Mike [read post]
27 Dec 2010, 12:02 am
Recently, I linked to this op ed by distinguished historian Pauline Meier. The piece defended Justice Breyer's comments on the Heller case that criticized the Heller majority and argued that the original intent of the Framers did not favor a right to bear arms for self defense. The piece is a perfect example of why originalists are often frustrated by many historians who opine on originalist issues. They claim to have superior knowledge of the history, and they are certainly well versed in it.… [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 10:40 pm
Some economic recommendations from my favorite candidate for the 2012 presidency. [read post]
