Over at Faculty Lounge, Dan Filler has this very interesting post on the choices universities face if they want to add a law school.
Archive | 2010
More Influential Books
Caveat: These are among the books that most influenced me in one way or another, even if they are not necessarily the best books I have read. Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom I didn’t think the book had influenced me much when I read it, but I’ve been amazed how often Friedman’s insights have helped […]
My Top 5 Influential Books
Ok, if Ilya and Todd are going to list the top books that most influenced them, I may as well, too. Here’s my “top 5” list, in the order that I read them and with the approximate date(s) in which I read them: 1) Arnold Lobel, Adventures of Frog and Toad (read in 1978). Frog […]
My Top 10 Most Influential Books:
I love lists and I love books, so how can I not chime in with my Top 10 most influential books: 1. F.A. Hayek, Law, Legislation, and Liberty, Volume 1, “Rules and Order”: The most thorough development of the idea of spontaneous order, which in my view is the single most important idea in social […]
Benjamin Wittes Comments on His AQ7 Letter at The New Republic
The excitement over the AQ7 ad put out by Liz Cheney’s organization has died down, but Ben Wittes has this very interesting piece up in The New Republic extending discussion of the letter that he drafted, signed by a group of conservative and centrist folks criticizing it. I was one of the signers, and wound up […]
Drone Warfare in House Subcommittee Hearing
By Kenneth Anderson on March 24, 2010 11:38 am in Counter-Terrorism Policy, International Human Rights Law, Robotics, Targeted Killing, War and Armed Conflict, War on Terror
Yesterday (Tuesday, March 23, 2010) I was pleased to appear as a witness before the House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, to discuss drone warfare and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The list of witnesses is here, along with a link to a webcast (which I can’t seem to open), and links to the witness […]
Health Insurance and Pharma Stocks Rise, US Treasuries Sink in Reponse to Obama Care:
Full analysis of the impacts of Obama Care will take more systematic econometric analysis, but the early returns suggest that Obama Care is good for health insurance providers and pharmaceutical companies but bad for US Treasuries. Both sides of the ledger seem like what I would have predicted.
New Health Care Law Regulates Restaurant Menus, Drive-Through Signs of Restaurant Chains
The New York Times reports: Buried deep in the health care legislation that President Obama signed on Tuesday is a new requirement that will affect any American who walks into a McDonald’s, Starbucks or Burger King. Every big restaurant chain in the nation will now be required to put calorie information on their menus and […]
Liu Goes Before the Judiciary Committee
The Los Angeles Times previews today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. As I predicted, it looks like this nomination will face substantial opposition from Republicans. UPDATE: At NRO, Ed Whelan outlines the case against Liu. I […]
The Books that Influenced Me the Most
Tyler Cowen recently started a meme of asking bloggers to list the books that influenced them the most. Here’s Tyler’s list. Some others that I found interesting are Bryan Caplan, Matthew Yglesias, and Jay Elias. I found it interesting that there is so little overlap between my list, Caplan’s and Cowen’s, even though we are […]
Radio Debate on the Constitutionality of the Health Care Bill
Readers in the southern California area may be interested to know that, tomorrow, I will be debating the constitutionality of the health care bill on KPCC’s Air Talk program at 2 PM eastern time, 11 AM Pacific time. At this point, I am told that my opponent will be Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of the UC […]
13 States File Suit Against Health Care Reform
Thirteen state attorneys general — twelve Republicans and one Democrat — filed suit today against the health care reform signed into law by President Obama. Their complaint is here. In a separate action, a fourteenth state (Virginia) also filed suit.
Sowell: Nov. 2010 may be “the point of no return”
At RealClearPolitics, Thomas Sowell writes ominously about the political future: The corrupt manner in which this massive legislation was rammed through Congress, without any of the committee hearings or extended debates that most landmark legislation has had, has provided a roadmap for pushing through more such sweeping legislation in utter defiance of what the public […]
Public Opinion on Legal Challenges to the Individual Mandate
Rasmussen Reports has just released a poll purporting to show that 49 percent of likely voters favor state litigation against the individual mandate, while 37 percent are opposed. The poll also reports that likely voters oppose the individual mandate 53% to 43%. This is only one poll, of course. All of the usual caveats […]
OMB Has Its Eyes on Prizes
Earlier this month, with little fanfare, the Obama Administration took a small but significant step toward encouraging greater technological innovation. On March 8, the Office of Management and Budget issued a guidance to federal agencies on the use of challenges and prizes to spur technological innovation. This memorandum seeks to “strongly encourage” federal agencies to […]