Author Archive | Jonathan H. Adler

Today’s W$J reports that ethanol’s political influence may finally be on the decline. Opposition to the ethanol industry’s goals has grown significantly stiffer. The so-called barnyard lobby — representing the meat, livestock and poultry industries — says high corn prices are hurting its profits. The price of corn-based animal feed has increased about 60% since […]

Christopher DeMuth will step down as president of the American Enterprise Institute before the end of 2008. Concurrent with this announcement, DeMuth as an op-ed in the WSJ reflecting on his tenure and the role of think tanks in public policy. Think tanks are identified in the public mind as agents of a particular political […]

Tyler Cowen reviews Paul Krugman’s The Conscience of a Liberal on Marginal Revolution. He finds it less shrill than he thought and, as a consequence, expects it to sell less than Naomi Klein’s latest.

Newsweek has an interesting story reporting that Alberto Gonzales has hired attorney George Terwillger — who had been on the short-list to replace Gonzales as AG — to help Gonzales handle ongoing Congressional and Justice Department probes.

Today the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Stoneridge Investment Partners v. Scientific-Atlanta, arguably the most important securities law case before the Supreme Court in at least a decade. At issue is whether third parties may be held liable under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act and SEC Rule 10b-5 for engaging in transactions […]

Tyler Cowen has read Naomi Klein’s new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, and he is not impressed. Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” (Metropolitan Books, 446 pages, $28), the latest anti-capitalist best seller, tries in vain to discredit the economic system that brought about modern America, the […]

This morning’s Examiner story on Sandy Berger’s reported role as an advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton has generated quite a stir. The Clinton campaign refused comment to the Examiner but has subsequently claimed Berger has no formal role in the campaign. According to Senator Clinton herself, “He has no official role in my campaign. He’s […]

George Will has a recent column profiling University of Chicago economist Austan Goolsbee, an advisor to the Barack Obama presidential campaign. Goolsbee was a classmate of mine at Yale. While we often disagreed political matters, I was always impressed by his intelligence and wit. He also seems to have impressed Will, who concludes his column: […]

Yesterday’s Washington Post had this interesting article about military interrogations during WWII and the soldiers that conducted them.

John Mellencamp’s new song and video, “Jena,” has struck a nerve with the town’s mayor, Murphy R. McMillin. “The town of Jena has for months been mischaracterized in the media and portrayed as the epicenter of hatred, racism and a place where justice is denied,” Jena Mayor Murphy R. McMillin wrote in a statement on […]

Given recent events, it is hard for me to think of a more appropriate Sunday Song Lyric than Live’s “Heaven.” The only problem is that I’ve posted that song before. Still, it fits, and it’s a great song.

The creation of a new fund to support the study of entrepreneurship, free market capitalism, individual liberty and limited government at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has sparked controversy at the midwestern campus. Some Illinois faculty are concerned the creation of the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government represents an end-run around faculty governance […]

The National Federation of the Blind’s Committee on Automotive and Pedestrian Safety is concerned that hybrid vehicles are too quiet when running at slower speeds, because some blind people rely upon their ability to hear automobiles when crossing streets or walking through parking lots. The NFIB is quick to add that they are not opposed […]

The editor of Blawg Review has a list of the best legal blogs — and we’re on it! The editor also notes the nominations of other blawgers. Oh, and there’s a link to the new Blawg Review too.

I admit that most of the blogs I visit regularly are law or policy-related. But, like Eugene and David, there are some others I like to check out. I love movies, so there are a decent number of movie-oriented sites I like to visit. One is the film blog Libertas, “a forum for conservative thought […]