Author Archive | Jonathan H. Adler

Reason‘s Jesse Walker documents the growth of political correctness on the Right. When I say “political correctness,” I’m referring to an attitude, not an agenda. In some hands the term is a broad synonym for censorship and groupthink, qualities that have always been common across the political spectrum. Other times it devolves into a vague […]

Nominal prices of gasoline are at post-WWII highs. Even in real terms, gasoline prices are high — higher than the peaks of the early 1980s. Yet gasoline is actually more affordable than ever, according to Indur Goklany. In this post on The Commons Blog, Goklany notes that: Relative to 1978, the price of regular gasoline […]

Kevin Drum ponders another “Lost” mystery.

The Nukak Maku have always lived a nomadic life in the Amazon jungle, foraging for berries and hunting monkeys with blow guns. One group of Nukak recently decided it had enough of this life (and the increased competition with guerillas for territory). They’ve left the rain forest and set up camp in southern Colombia, the […]

Would you like a blue-cheese-stuffed brine lollipop with your dirty martini? Or perhaps some passion fruit foam on your whiskey sour? The NYT reports on the latest bartending trend.

In response to my post below on his op-ed comapring the costs of the Kyoto Protocol with that of the war in Iraq, Cass Sunstein e-mails: Despite the Post‘s misleading subtitle [“If We Can Fund the War in Iraq, Why Can’t We Fund the Kyoto Protocol?”], and probably some unclear writing on my part, I […]

University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein thinks so. He makes the case in today’s Washington Post: For the United States, the cost of the Iraq war will soon exceed the anticipated cost of the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement designed to control greenhouse gases. For both, the cost is somewhere in excess of $300 […]

The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires states to set caps, known as “TMDLs,” for the amount of certain pollutants that may be discharged into polluted waters. Under the (CWA), TMDLs must be set at the level “necessary” to meet relevant water quality standards. For years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has maintained that TMDLs need […]

Tomorrow I will be giving a lunchtime talk on eminent domain and the Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. New London at the University of Chicago Law School sponsored by the student chapter of the Federalist Society. As one might expect, I will be very critical of the use of eminent domain for economic development […]

Details at Instapundit.

I’ve had lots of requests to bring back the “Sunday Song Lyric.” I won’t promise to post one every week, but I’ll try to post them when the inspiration strikes. I’m also happy to take reader suggestions via e-mail. With all the talk of law school exams (a subject for Sunday Song Lyrics before), Redheadlaw7 […]

Ann Althouse wonders whether “law students know (or believe) that we lawprofs mean for the exam to be a rewarding educational experience?” and provokes some interesting comments. UPDATE: Rick Garnett has prompted more discussion on this topic at Prawfsblawg.

Mary Jo White was U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1993 to 2002. In that role, she oversaw several terrorism-related prosecutions, including those the 1993 World Trade Center and 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings. Earlier today, she spoke at The City Club of Cleveland on the War on Terrorism and civil liberties. […]

Right now I am on a panel at the CFP conference on “Blogging and Privacy” at the 2006 CFP conference or, as session moderator Ian Kerr notes, what should be called the “Blogging under Pseudonyms” panel. Also on the panel are David Lat of Underneath Their Robes and Wonkette, and Kurt Opsahl of the Electronic […]

Today, in Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs v. Eschenbach, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that the Due Process Clause protects “the right of a mentally competent, terminally ill adult patient to access potentially life-saving . . . drugs, upon a doctor’s advice, even […]