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9 Jul 2011, 7:42 pm
(David Bernstein) My wife and I recently got into a conversation with a man sitting next to us in the lounge of the Barcelona Hilton. [read post]
22 Sep 2014, 3:03 am
Last week Cato held its annual Constitution Day celebrating the publication of the new 2013-14 Cato Supreme Court Review, with articles from such contributors as Roger Pilon, David Bernstein, Eric Rassbach, Andrew Pincus, Richard Epstein, and P.J. [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 9:33 am
(David Bernstein) I was reading the Harvard University Press’s marketing summary of Yale Law School professor Bruce Ackerman’s new book, The Decline and Fall of the American Republic. [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 2:04 pm
(David Bernstein) RL: Modern conservative constitutionalists, meanwhile, though dissenters in some ways from the orthodox interpretation of American constitutional history, also want to see themselves as part of a seamless jurisprudential tradition, and they venerate some of the same Progressive heroes as their liberal adversaries do…. [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 5:08 pm
(David Bernstein) (1) Looking for a calcium/Vitamin D chewable supplement that your kids will actually eat, and that’s sugar-free? [read post]
27 Jun 2010, 5:25 pm
(David Bernstein) I just came across this essay in The Nation by one Corey Robin about Ayn Rand. [read post]
13 Sep 2010, 3:18 pm
(David Bernstein) Human Rights Watch, bleeding donors because of the various scandals surrounding its reporting on the Middle East [I have a lengthy series of blog posts on HRW and Israel, most of which can be found here, with some more recent ones here], and apparently finding Saudi elites either unavailable or no longer palatable, has found a sugar daddy: George Soros, who is donating $100 million to the organization. [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 1:57 pm
(David Bernstein) Anthropologists tell us that one window into a society is what is and is not taboo in that society. [read post]
25 Sep 2011, 6:30 am
(David Bernstein) I alluded to this in a post about shorting the Euro, and the comments by readers had misinformation, so I thought I’d clarify.As I understand it, I typical leveraged short ETF fund is structured so that its return is based on the percentage daily increase or decrease in the price of the underlying securities.So let’s say you invest $100 in a “triple short” fund that focuses on the Panamanian stock market. [read post]
17 May 2010, 5:20 am
(David Bernstein) in first not preventing and then managing a man-made disaster in the Gulf of Mexico as it proved in managing the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, can we finally put to rest the inane (not to mention counter-factual) Krugman argument that the Bush Administration’s incompetence in handling Katrina was a result of the government being “run by a political party committed to the belief that government is always the problem, never the solution? [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 6:44 pm
(David Bernstein) Over at the Legal History Blog, Ken Kersch has two posts on the influence, or lack thereof, of William Crosskey, a law professor at the University of Chicago from 1935 to 1968 (post 1 and post 2). [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 2:44 pm
(David Bernstein) Turkey’s Islamist government, not known for its compassion to, say, Kurds in Turkey, has been shedding crocodile tears over Gaza for several years now, and helped instigate the flotilla fiasco. [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 7:40 am
(David Bernstein) In Tamraz v. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 12:25 pm
(David Bernstein) After all, what’s a controversial Supreme Court case without multiple gratuitous references to Lochner? [read post]
3 May 2011, 5:17 pm
(David Bernstein) Back in 2006, I wrote: “I’ve noticed in a variety of contexts that there are some rather well-educated, articulate individuals out there who have what seems to me to be a fanatical, quasi-religious belief in ‘international law’, and the idea that it should trump any other conflicting consideration. [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 3:19 pm
(David Bernstein) The New York Times’s stories on the Great Recession always seem to manage to find 20 somethings to interview who seem completely clueless about finances. [read post]
14 Jul 2023, 4:30 am
(Note, this letter is a project of David Bernstein of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values. [read post]
13 May 2011, 2:21 pm
(Ilya Somin) In a recent post, co-blogger David Bernstein urges libertarians to abandon the Libertarian Party and work within the two major parties. [read post]
16 Jul 2009, 1:05 am
David Bernstein reported in the Wall Street Journal on Monday about Human Rights Watch's latest effort in Saudi Arabia: A delegation from Human Rights Watch was recently in Saudi Arabia. [read post]
3 Sep 2011, 5:18 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller David Bernstein has a pointless “gotcha” post at Volokh Conspiracy today in which he argues that the Palmer Report somehow contradicts my claim that blockade is only permissible in international armed conflict (IAC), whether between states or between a state and an insurgent group recognized as a belligerent. [read post]
