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Chief George Gascón of the San Francisco Police Department (formerly deputy chief in LA) will discuss crime and punishment with Ian Masters at the Hammer Museum in Westwood at 7:00 Tuesday night. Oh yeah, and they’re also having some academic from UCLA.
Archive for May, 2010
May 14th, 2010
Mercantilist nonsense weakens the case for the Kerry-Lieberman climate change bill.
May 13th, 2010
To right-wingers who say that the Arizona immigration law is necessary to protect “respect for the rule of law,” there is a simple two word answer: John Yoo.
May 13th, 2010
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy, Reviews
Our Mother’s Day expedition was to the newly reinstalled Oakland Museum. We loved it, and I spent some time composing a post about it in my head, planning to write it up about now. Imagine my surprise at finding that Jon Carroll somehow entered my personal brain and extracted the entire post, and I don’t [...]
May 11th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Moral leadership means persuading people to do things they don’t want to do. So you can’t measure moral leadership by popularity; when someone is exercising it, he’s doing things that make him less popular.
May 11th, 2010
The 7% reduction in US carbon emissions last year still does not put the US on a sustainable path.
May 10th, 2010
Category: Microeconomics and policy analysis
This blog got started in response to the insistence by many on the right that evidence from the real world is no longer relevant for public policy decisions. But the left and right have been talking past one another since way before the appearance of the reality deniers. When the left says that redistributive taxation [...]
May 10th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Sen. Hatch: Professor Kagan, can you tell the committee what your sexual orientation is? Elena Kagan: Yes, Senator, I can. However, I will not. All you, personally, need to know about my sexual orientation is that I’m not, and could never be, interested in you. Other than that, it’s NOYFB. Next question?
May 9th, 2010
Category: Supreme Court, Torture
She was against them, when Lindsey Graham wanted to shred the Constitution to permit them.