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10 May 2011, 11:48 am
(Sasha Volokh) I’m pleased to have gotten the reprints of my Houston Law Review piece, Rationality or Rationalism? [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 7:32 am
(Sasha Volokh) My friend Nick Ragone has just published Presidential Leadership: 15 Decisions That Changed the Nation, which looks at, inter scalia, the Whiskey Rebellion, the Louisiana Purchase, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the “evil empire” speech. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 2:14 pm
Alexander "Sasha" Volokh has this post at VC announcing this draft article at SSRN. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 11:35 am
(Sasha Volokh) I’ve just posted a draft of a recent article, Everything We Know About Faith-Based Prisons, on SSRN. [read post]
13 Mar 2011, 8:59 pm
(Sasha Volokh) For Pi day, let me plug David Blatner’s The Joy of Pi, a short tome of fun facts about pi, whose main advantage is that it cites me, saying something along the lines of “Sure, memorizing digits of pi isn’t useful, but saying that math has to be useful is like saying that the English language is only good for ordering pizza. [read post]
13 Mar 2011, 8:59 pm
(Sasha Volokh) For Pi day, let me plug David Blatner’s The Joy of Pi, a short tome of fun facts about pi, whose main advantage is that it cites me, saying something along the lines of “Sure, memorizing digits of pi isn’t useful, but saying that math has to be useful is like saying that the English language is only good for ordering pizza.”What was that all about? [read post]
12 Mar 2011, 7:43 am
(Sasha Volokh) I’ve seen various bloggers attack the assertion that Japan’s earthquake will be good for the economy (see, e.g., David Bernstein’s post below) as an example of the broken window fallacy.Now I like the story behind the broken window fallacy as much as the next guy. [read post]
12 Mar 2011, 7:43 am
(Sasha Volokh) I’ve seen various bloggers attack the assertion that Japan’s earthquake will be good for the economy (see, e.g., David Bernstein’s post below) as an example of the broken window fallacy.Now I like the story behind the broken window fallacy as much as the next guy. [read post]
20 Feb 2011, 3:17 pm
(Ilya Somin) In a recent post, I expressed my disagreement with co-blogger Sasha Volokh’s view that libertarianism condemns government funding of asteroid defense, pointing out that most prominent libertarian thinkers also disagree with him.Through selective quotation, Brad DeLong tries to make it seem like I endorsed Sasha’s position. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 5:17 pm
(Sasha Volokh) I’m holding out for this one. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 11:43 am
(Ilya Somin) Sasha Volokh’s post arguing that his version of libertarianism might not allow government spending to provide for asteroid defense has drawn predictable howls of outrage, including Brad DeLong’s claim that it proves that “libertarians are completely insane. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 7:17 am
(Sasha Volokh) I agree with Jonathan below that the Constitution (through the spending power) allows Congress to spend tax money to protect the Earth from an asteroid.On the other hand — and at the risk of confirming Mark Kleiman in his belief that libertarians are loopy — I don’t speak for all libertarians, but I think there’s a good case to be made that taxing people to protect the Earth from an asteroid, while within Congress’s powers, is an… [read post]
6 Feb 2011, 2:44 pm
(Ilya Somin) Co-bloggers Sasha Volokh and Ken Anderson express puzzlement as to why anyone would care about the outcome of professional sports competitions. [read post]
6 Feb 2011, 11:49 am
I have to double-down on Co-Conspirator Sasha’s Superbowl post. [read post]
6 Feb 2011, 9:44 am
(Sasha Volokh) Someone told me a few hours ago that the Superbowl was today, and that apparently the Packers and Steelers are playing. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 10:07 am
(Sasha Volokh) I’ve only read one book by Piers Anthony — I believe it was Shade of the Tree (1986), perhaps thirteen years ago. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 12:56 pm
(Sasha Volokh) Anyone interested in renting an apartment in glamorous Beverly Hills 90211? [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 5:56 pm
The subset of Volokh Conspiracy bloggers who are Russian-Jewish immigrants (Sasha and Eugene Volokh and Ilya Somin) have posted some interesting thoughts in recent months about their and their families' immigrant experiences and/or their pre-emigration lives in Russia. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 11:19 am
Are Eugene, Sasha, and Ilya typical in this regard, or atypical? [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 11:14 pm
(Ilya Somin) I agree with most of what co-blogger Sasha Volokh says in his post on Gal Beckerman’s important new book on the political struggle over Jewish emigration from the USSR.For example, it is indeed true (and in retrospect, very interesting) that the campaign united many ideologically disparate groups in the US. [read post]
