Author Archive | Sasha Volokh

This is the second in a series of posts serial-blogging a draft chapter I’ve written on privatization and competition policy (including antitrust) for a forthcoming Stanford University Press book on Competition and the Role of the State. The first part was yesterday. What follows represents the current draft, though sans footnotes for the blog format. […]

This is the first in a series of posts serial-blogging a draft chapter I’ve written on privatization and competition policy for a forthcoming Stanford University Press book on Competition and the Role of the State. What follows represents the current draft, though sans footnotes for the blog format. Sorry, I don’t have it posted on […]

I had been inclined to agree with Eugene who said, in comments to a previous post: As to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, I felt I didn’t have much useful to say, so I said nothing; this isn’t meant to slight the man or his legacy, just as my not posting much about Independence Day […]

Via my father Vladimir, I learn that today is a special anniversary: the 89th anniversary of the death of another Vladimir, Lenin. Be sure and commemorate this day with appropriate observances and/or festivities.

Conrad Bain died a few days ago; he played Mr. Drummond on the 1978-85 sitcom Diff’rent Strokes. Here’s the season 6 intro, and here’s an intro from an early season, though with the same theme song. Dana Plato died in 1999 and Gary Coleman died in 2010, so of the long-time regulars, only Todd Bridges […]

As someone who has spoken Esperanto to the folks at the International Esperanto Museum in Vienna and who, in 1993, had an outgoing answering machine message in Klingon, I was interested in the recent New Yorker article, Utopian for Beginners by Joshua Foer. The main subject is Ithkuil, a constructed language invented by one John […]

My medieval English literature reading group at Emory spent last semester reading John Barbour’s The Bruce, a late-14th-century long narrative poem about Robert the Bruce and the Scottish wars of independence of the early 14th century. (We got through half of it, stopping just before the battle of Bannockburn.) For those of you who have […]

Thursday, I posted the first part of my book chapter on privatization and political advocacy (with particular application to prisons); I posted part 2 on Friday. Those who are interested in the fuller argument should consult my 2008 Stanford Law Review article, Privatization and the Law and Economics of Political Advocacy. A technical version of […]

Yesterday, I posted the first part of my book chapter on privatization and political advocacy (with particular application to prisons). Those who are interested in the fuller argument should consult my 2008 Stanford Law Review article, Privatization and the Law and Economics of Political Advocacy. A technical version of the paper is available in the […]

A few months ago, Praeger put out a three-volume set called Prison Privatization: The Many Facets of a Controversial Industry. Volume 3 is about “The Political Climate of Prison Privatization”, and chapter 1 of that volume is The Effect of Privatization on the Public and Private Prison Lobbies. I’m going to be serial-blogging that chapter […]

William McKinley High School, a public school in the Lima (Ohio) School District, had a radioactivity problem. Cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester had acquired radioactive material from Dalton Labs to produce mutant cheerleaders; sure, she reasoned, this might pose risks in the long run, but who cares when a high-school championship is on the line. Sue […]

If you want to rent a 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom apartment in Beverly Hills, just a block northeast of the Larry Flynt building on Wilshire & La Cienega, please let me know (volokh at post dot harvard dot edu) or answer this Craigslist ad. If you answer the Craigslist ad, be sure and tell them Sasha sent […]

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