Friday, September 30, 2005

Why I Respect Eugene Volokh

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Background: There's been back and forth on the web over some legal proposals from the 1970's in which Justice Ginsburg was involved...
Thursday, September 29, 2005

Lessons of the Hurricanes for Liberals

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Some liberals have gloated after Katrina, saying in effect that the disaster proves how much we need government. I agree, but if disaster re...
Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Do Institutions Make a Difference?

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In the MSNBC blog, the major in Iraq praised the captain who reported abuse of prisoners (Fishback?) as an exemplar of what's good in th...

Power Line Praises Bureaucrats

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I suspect this is a one off, from Power Line: "After I spent several decades working in the private sector, in constant contact with th...
Tuesday, September 27, 2005

REMF and Nam

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Full disclosure: I've read and liked several of Tracy Kidder's books. Like Mr. Kidder I graduated from a good university and ended...
Sunday, September 25, 2005

Lessons of the Hurricanes

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Today's Wash Post Outlook section has two articles drawing lessons from the response to the hurricanes: A doctor who traveled to Louisia...

The Safety of Crowds

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I've often thought but never posted that our (ordinary citizen) safety in the US is that of being in a crowd. But this post, via Volokh...
Saturday, September 24, 2005

New York Times Is NOT PC

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From yesterday's Times comes this: The Case of the Servant With the Fur Collar - New York Times : "Why was she wearing fur? That w...

Have Americans Usually Supported Their Wars?

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I was surprised by the part of this article describing the contemporaneous WWII Gallup polls. My faint memories include saving tin cans and...
Friday, September 23, 2005

Bureaucrats Vindicated?

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The Washington Post Federal Page reports on some research here : "It turns out that the career managers, on average, do a better job of...
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