Author Archive | Tyler Cowen

Just read this book — largely because some of my cobloggers have spoken highly of it — and liked it a lot, though I’m not a baseball fan. To me, this book is about science, psychology, and the power of reason and the scientific method. The story that it tells reminds me of the Royal […]

Agora reports: Feature article from Politiken, April 1st, 2006 By Ibrahim Ramadan My religion is threatened in this country. Not because I am a part of a Moslem minority in a Christian country. Not for lack of Mosques. And not by the Danish People’s Party and their stereotypical depiction of Moslems. My religion is threatened […]

It’s available here.

South of the Suwannee writes [UPDATE: I originally credited this to University of Miami lawprof Michael Froomkin, but i was mistaken; Michael was just the person who pointed me to this post]: Embargo of the Mind “The book has content and pictures that are reflective of the current Communist regime. Staff is following approved School […]

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has issued this nonbinding resolution: Resolution urging Cardinal William Levada, in his capacity has head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican, to withdraw his discriminatory and defamatory directive that Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco stop placing children in need of […]

Andy Sabl says, “not very,” and makes some quite plausible arguments, responding to Michael O’Hare on the same blog (Reality-Based Community). I’m not sure he’s right, but if you’re interested in these questions, Andy’s post is much worth reading.

[Please note UPDATE below.] The Daily Mail (U.K.) reports on the new British policy: Burglars will be allowed to escape without punishment under new instructions sent to all police forces. Police have been told they can let them off the threat of a court appearance and instead allow them to go with a caution. The […]

Some federal district court decisions recently have said “yes,” applying the federal Voting Rights Act and extending a Ninth Circuit decision from late last year. Lawprof Rick Hasen (generally something of a liberal) urges the Ninth Circuit to issue an emergency stay of one such decision that’s currently being appealed. Hasen sets forth his arguments […]

An interesting Chicago Tribune article on statutes and proposed statutes aimed at restricting such picketing. Here’s my First Amendment analysis of such laws.

I’ve just put up a new version of my forthcoming Stanford Law Review article on the subject; it has two whole new sections, on the Establishment Clause and on state Religious Freedom Restoration Acts. The issue, as before, is whether the government may limit a subsidy to groups that don’t discriminate based on various criteria, […]

The Times Higher Education Supplement (U.K.) reports, Mar. 17, 2006: Academic freedom is under threat in even the most modern democratic nations, John Sexton, president of New York University, warned this week. He told a joint meeting of the New York-based Scholars at Risk and the UK’s Council for Assisting Refugee Academics that for too […]

A comment leads me to repost Dane-Geld, a Kipling poem that I put up a few years ago. Today the Danes are the good guys rather than, as in the poem, the bad guys, and of course the fear isn’t of nations but of extremist religious groups. But the principle is the same: When you […]

Keith Burgess-Jackson runs a site that’s strongly critical of Texas law professor Brian Leiter. That site used to be http://brianleiter.powerblogs.com, but powerblogs has moved it to http://academicthug.powerblogs.com following this letter from Brian Leiter: Dear Mr. Landsown [sic]: I am writing to put you and your company, American Powerblogs Inc., on notice that a user of […]

  UPDATE: Just to be clear, the only error that I suggested the AP made is the one noted below: The AP story said that, despite Scalia’s allegation that the Herald had called him an “Italian jurist,” “The Herald had referred to him as an ‘Italian-American jurist.’” In fact, an online version of the article […]