George Burns used to say, “Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” Looks as if John McCain has the same idea about authenticity and politics.
George Burns used to say, “Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” Looks as if John McCain has the same idea about authenticity and politics.
Hat tip: Kevin Drum.
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
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Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
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I would change one line of that article – McCain's establishment of the 'straight talk' brand with the voters is secondary. As long as he has it well established with the media, he's golden. And I don't mean that the reporters and editors believe it; just that they feel it is the conventional wisdom to which they must bow.