Daily Archive: December 10, 2012

/// December 10, 2012

Conservatives’ Jim DeMint Problem

In service of defending his proposition that departing far-right Senator Jim DeMint is a “hero” whose record is one libertarians should celebrate, Washington Examiner‘s Tim Carney makes an argument that many on the left’ll find surprisingly agreeable....

Mike Schilling

/// December 10, 2012

Mordor!

Mike Schilling tinkers with Tolkien.

Guest Authors

/// December 10, 2012

Taxpayer-Directed Welfare

by James Hanley Way back when I was in graduate school, a couple of my students started talking to me about their experiences in student government. Their chief complaint was that they had no...

Murali

/// December 10, 2012

Constructing the Original Position 1: On Society and Justice

This is the first post in a series on constructing the original position. The introductory post is here. Look here for the rest of the posts in this series. The original position is first and foremost a...

Ethan Gach

/// December 10, 2012

Considering the Corruption of Charitable Sentiments

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Charity. Here is the introductory post for the Symposium. Here is a list of all posts so far. When THQ, a company which publishes...

David Ryan

/// December 10, 2012

Two Lesser Known Freedom of Speech Cases

When I was a kid, maybe eight years old, I asked my father “Why don’t doctors advertise?” My fathers answer, as best I can recall, was that doctors had, as a profession, decided that...

BlaiseP

/// December 10, 2012

The Arab Winter: amateur hour in Cairo

Precis: Egypt’s new constitution is a contradictory mess. Mohamed Morsi has made an autocratic botch of his slim mandate. The Egyptian military council (SCAF) bides its time, appointing regional governors, conducting secret trials, its...

Tod Kelly

/// December 10, 2012

What risk management has taught me about the Trayvon Martin shooting

One of the byproducts of having spent the past two decades in risk management is that, for better or worse, I tend to view everything I see in the news through that lens. This...