My GMU Econ colleague Bryan Caplan eloquently explains and defends the culture of GMU bloggers.
Colin Grabow reports on yet another Jones Act absurdity.
Chloe Anagnos celebrates the private-sector’s beautiful response to natural disasters.
This debacle du jour dramatizes how the court’s stature is hostage to the degrading confirmation process, which has become a maelstrom of insincerities. The justices who emerge from it suffer subtractions from the dignity that gives their decisions momentum for respect. For 64 years, the infusion of prestige the court received from its desegregation rulings has been remarkably durable, despite decisions — e.g., Roe v. Wade and Bush v. Gore — that were made during, and that intensified, turbulence in public sentiment. But prestige is perishable, and senatorial ludicrousness can infect all who come into contact with it.
Cass Sunstein laments the ideological uniformity of American college campuses.
Peter Suderman justifiably bemoans Republicans’ hypocrisy about fiscal prudence.
