A commenter to my previous post asked if I would think it was cool if people started coming up with creative ways to evade their taxes. Well, I think this is a cool way to induce tax payment.
Author Archive | Sasha Volokh
Crescat and Wikipedia by Holbo:
This is beautiful. Be sure and read the updates. And the comments.
A real boy:
I am now a lawyer.
Nem mikh mit tsu der ball game:
In Flood v. Kuhn (1972), where the Supreme Court reaffirmed that baseball wasn’t subject to antitrust law, Blackmun wrote: Then there are the many names, celebrated for one reason or another, that have sparked the diamond and its environs and that have provided tinder for recaptured thrills, for reminiscence and comparisons, and for conversation and […]
Crescat Sententia has moved:
It’s now at www.crescatsententia.net, instead of at its previous home at dot org. Please visit it there! (The version currently up at dot org is a fake. Ignore it!) Compare to: “Homestarrunner dot net. It’s dot com!”
Fighting Wildcats and Rodents:
The 5th and final excerpt from War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today, by Max Boot: Technological advance will not change the essential nature of war. Fighting will never be an antiseptic engineering exercise. It will always be a bloody business subject to chance and uncertainty in which the […]
Military Power Still Matters:
Part 4 of excerpts from War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today, by Max Boot: The major theme that runs throughout War Made New is the importance of not missing out on the next big change in warfare. History is driven by many factors, but in academia’s rush to […]
Change or Die:
Part 3 of excerpts from War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today, by Max Boot. A British army colonel noted in 1839: “In no profession is the dread of innovation so great as in the army.” Successful adaptation to major technological shifts requires overcoming that dread and changing the […]
Re Responses to my 2nd Post::
Some of today’s respondents have expressed skepticism about my assertion that having a better bureaucracy was the key advantage enjoyed by England over Spain in the 1580s or by the U.S. over Iraq more recently. If it didn’t have a better bureaucracy–i.e. one capable of producing a more effective navy, with better ships, better cannons, […]
A Democratic Advantage?
Part Two of excerpts from War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today, by Max Boot: Taking advantage of major innovations usually requires what James Q. Wilson calls a “change-oriented personality”–someone like John Hawkins, Gustavus Adolphus, or Curtis LeMay who is not afraid to shake up conventional ways of doing […]
In response to your responses:
Thanks to everyone for your interesting responses to my post based on my new book, War Made New, which I’ve been reading while in Houston today on my book tour. (Tomorrow am off to Dallas followed by Kansas, where I’m speaking at the Army’s Command and General Staff College.) My plan is to continue to […]
Nice way to go:
This is from the publisher’s postscript to Austrian writer Stefan Zweig‘s autobiography, The World of Yesterday. Stefan Zweig and Elizabeth Charlotte Zweig, his wife, died by their own hands at Petropolis, Brazil, on February 23, 1942. This was Mr. Zweig’s last message: Before parting from life of my free will and in my right mind […]
The Race for Military Dominance
My new book, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today (Gotham Books), tells the story of four Revolutions in Military Affairs over the past 500 years: the Gunpowder Revolution (c.1500-1700), the First Industrial Revolution (c. 1750-1900), the Second Industrial Revolution (c. 1900-1945) and the ongoing Information Revolution (c. 1970 […]
A most ingenious paradox:
This is another old paradox, which I’m posting mostly because I like the author’s style in presenting it: In the Hanged-Man Paradox, a man, K, is sentenced on Sunday to be hanged, but the judge, who is evidently French or enamored of the French wit for surprising those sentenced to the guillotine in their last […]
Labor-management pop culture bleg:
Scenario: Workers are trying to do something collectively against their boss — for example, get him to agree to some policy that benefits them — but they have no union. They try to keep each other in line (prevent each other from working, induce each other to contribute money) by using informal sanctions, like ostracism […]