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James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
The Minimum-Wage Stealth Tax on the Poor
Imagine an antipoverty program with the following elements: a value-added tax in which the effective rate increases as family income declines.
Liftoff Levers
I read the minutes of the January FOMC meeting. (I was preparing for an interview with WSJ's Mary Kissel) There is a lot more interesting here, and a lot more important, than just when will the Fed raise rates.
From 2007 To 2012-13, The Income Share Of Top 1% Fell
The share of income (including capital gains) held by the top 1 percent grew from 10 percent in both 1960 and 1980 to 21.5 percent in 2000. Since then, it fell to under 17 percent in 2002 before rising to 23.5 percent in 2007.
Some Fun New Podcasts from Spaghetti On The Wall
I have this little experimental podcast company I started with two friends: Shane Harris and Jennifer Howell. Most of its work is not related to Lawfare, but sometimes we do shows of potential interest to the Lawfare readership, and I try to post those when we do. One of those is the weekly show, Rational Security, the latest episode of which is now out:
Shelby Steele On ABC News
Shelby Steele discusses content of his new book Shame: How America’s Past Sins Polarized Our Country.
Michael Munger On Choosing In Groups
Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book (co-authored with Kevin Munger), Choosing in Groups. Munger lays out the challenges of group decision-making and the challenges of agreeing on constitutions or voting rules for group decision-making.
Williams: Liberals See Victimization As Reason For Black Problems
Today’s liberals are not racists, but they often behave that way. They would benefit immensely from considering some of the arguments in award-winning scholar Dr. Shelby Steele’s forthcoming book, “Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country.”
Prison Sentences Much Longer Than Juries Would Like
Jacob Sullum, over at Reason's Hit and Run blog, has a very interesting post about a federal judge in Cleveland who, after a jury found a man guilty of receiving, possessing, and distributing child pornography, polled the jury for the jurors' view of a just sentence.
The Real Story Behind Citizenfour’s Oscar
Like a lot of Lawfare readers, we were pretty surprised by Citizenfour‘s triumph at the Oscars last night. It wasn’t just that there was Glenn Greenwald, foe of all things mainstream, holding—of all things—that picture of establishment respectability, the Oscar.
Diplomats On Twitter: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
London—In the 1840s, after receiving his first telegram, then British foreign minister Lord Palmerston reportedly exclaimed “My God, this is the end of diplomacy!”
California Traffic Is A Symptom Of Housing Unaffordability
Two weeks ago I explored how California's housing unaffordability crisis is impacting the Golden State's business climate.
The U.S. Intelligence Community And Non-Neutral Principles
Last week, Ben’s NSA Constitution Day speech emerged after a long “declassification” process. One puzzle Ben grapples with in this speech is why reasonable, educated Americans have–and will continue to have–such a high level of discomfort with what the NSA and other intelligence agencies do.
Terry Anderson On The John Batchelor Show (11:03)
Terry Anderson talks about his new book Free Market Environmentalism For The Next Generation.
CNN Set To Begin Broadcasting In Russia Again
Russia's state media watchdog has approved U.S. news giant CNN's application for a broadcast license, bringing the cable broadcaster back to Russia less than two months after it left the market following the introduction of a tough new media advertising law.
The Honesty Gap
There may be some poetic justice in the recent revelation that Hillary Clinton, who has made big noises about a "pay gap" between women and men, paid the women on her Senate staff just 72 percent of what she paid the men. The Obama White House staff likewise has a pay gap between women and men, as of course does the economy as a whole.
Krugman's Priceless Economics
As regular readers of my posts on Econlog know, although I am often critical of Paul Krugman, I defend him when he's doing good economics (here, for example). His New York Times column yesterday, though, "Walmart's Visible Hand," essentially throws out basic price theory. Thus the title of this post.
T.C. Boyle, LeVar Burton lead L.A. Times Book Prizes
The 35th annual L.A. Times Book Prizes are announced today. There are five finalists in 10 categories, and two prize winners were revealed: The Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement will be presented to author T.C. Boyle, and LeVar Burton will be honored with the Innovators Award for inspiring generations of readers with Reading Rainbow.
‘Please Stop Helping Us’ And ‘Shame’
One of the few things conservatives and liberals agree on about the ’60s is that it was a decade of radical change in the nation’s politics, ethnoracial and gender relations, popular culture and international policies.
Dom Armentano
Following a few of links in Bryan Caplan's latest post, I came across this book (zero-price as a pdf) edited by Walter Block. Titled I Chose Liberty, it's a series of essays on how various libertarians or close-to libertarians came to their views.
Monday Morning Muesli
On Friday I read yet another plaudit for Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. Sleepwalkers? To judge from the title the great powers went to war in their sleep, without a conscious decision to do so, an interpretation that should let everyone off the hook.