Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2012
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2012
My hypothesis is that on any interesting or particularly controversial blog post or facebook update, it will devolve into an utterly inane foodfight within 6 comments.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 20th, 2012
In today’s Journal, Professor Blinder enlightens us with some of these gems: That’s where economics and law collide. Economically, the individual mandate and insurance reforms form an unbreakable pair. Legally, they are separate. So the mandate could be ruled unconstitutional while the insurance reforms are not. After all, there is no question that health insurance […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2012
My excellent student Alex A. has recently employed the phrase “The Jig is Up” in regard to an existential crisis we’ve all been having. We’ll share that crisis soon. In the meantime, let’s honor the expression a little bit. Here’s the Harvard Law Review in 1939 (do current editions read like this?): While there is […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 4th, 2012
For $300, you can actually get a hockey stick signed by Michael Mann! Seriously.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2012
I used to actually be a scholar. A friend of mine saw my name and a colleague’s name in this past weekend’s Boston Globe. For interested readers, had I been following my “ideology” I would have tried hard to refute the result that we published. But the data spoke as clearly as they could given […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 19th, 2012
From his 1776 Thoughts on Government: The principle difficulty lies, and the greatest care should be employed in constituting this representative assembly. It should be in miniature an exact portrait of the people at large. It should think, feel, reason and act like them. That it may be the interest of this assembly to do […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 12th, 2012
My old Professor Frank finds another justification for raising taxes on the rich: high tuition.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2012
UPDATE: for those of you interested in THE major reason I support my colleague (aside from the fact that he is among the most reasonable people I know, who wrote a book on economics and raising his daughter that persuaded me to change careers, and who actually considers seriously all good arguments in a way […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 6th, 2012
They said it, yep – now global warming is going to threaten our health because cross-country skiing and outdoor skating seasons will be shorter. The results paint a grim picture for the future of outdoor skating. The largest decreases in the skating season length were observed in the Prairies and Southwest regions of Canada. By […]