February 2009 - Posts
Stephen Marche at Esquire titled this piece, The State of the Culture Is... Sacred? Just look at our current slate of horror films. Scary movies serve the same function in the 20th and 21st centuries that fairy tales served the children of an earlier...
Last night president Obama gave a formal address - arguably a prelude for the next four years of government spending, intervention and regulation. The Wall Street Journal commented that his vague allusions to industry regulations and bailouts were interpreted...
In The Myth of the Rational Voter , Bryan explains that, much of today's bad economic policies can be blamed on the systematic biased beliefs that voters hold concerning issues of economics. A way of rephrasing Bryan's insight - ideas matter....
1. Daniel Solove (whose book I reviewed in ) writes on systematic disproportionality. 2. Market in everything: You can now pay $56.95 to read about how wrong I am. 3. Public Criminology is one of my new favorite blogs. 4. Danny Sahar is the first to cite...
You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. How much stimulus will go to the police state? Read More...