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My list of five is up a the Five Books website; that meant leaving out eight other equally good volumes.
Archive for July, 2010
July 10th, 2010
Category: Sports
Did he owe something to the Cavs, or to Cleveland? What, exactly? And why?
July 9th, 2010
Category: Moral philosophy, Sports
…has every right to work anywhere he wants. He’s under no legal obligation to northeast Ohio; this is obviously advice for chumps and losers. If he thinks the $28m he made there last year is cramping his style, it’s the American way to add to it. I myself have no conception how to spend a [...]
July 9th, 2010
Category: The Dysfunctional Senate
Now that Bob Bennett has been rudely evicted by his own state party, could he actually vote for cloture once in a while?
July 9th, 2010
Category: Crime Control, Firearms
Chicago Police Officer Thor Soderberg, very much missed.
July 8th, 2010
Category: Popular Culture, Sports
For LeBron enthusiasists, some wise words from beyond the grave.
July 8th, 2010
Category: Crime Control
Finding the cop guilty beyond reasonable doubt of deliberate murder would have required a leap of faith. I think the jury did the right thing.
July 8th, 2010
Category: Afghanistan, Drug Policy
From our op-ed in Friday’s Financial Times: “There simply are not many feasible drug-control activities in Afghanistan that do more good than harm. This is a case where less really is more: since the natural tendency of counterdrug efforts is to help our enemies, we should pursue those efforts as little as possible. As a first step in breaking the Taliban’s momentum, we might stop filling its coffers.”
July 8th, 2010
Category: Affordable Care Act, Policy Analysis
My latest Kaiser Health News piece about Lebron James—I mean about Republican criticisms of the new high-risk health insurance pools. I have been concerned about this issue for a long time. Given the venue (KHN, not ESPN) and some final edits, the piece reads a little more naively bipartisan than I had intended. I don’t [...]
July 8th, 2010
Category: Israel, Middle East Politics
We need to have a joint Jewish-American/Arab-American effort to present an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. Hussein Ibish is the guy to move forward with this from the Arab-American community. I just wish he’d return his mail.