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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]
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]
2 May 2010, 4:19 pm
(David Bernstein) I won’t. [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 7:13 pm
(David Bernstein) It’s fascinating to listen again to this talk by HRW Middle East and North Africa director Sarah Leah Whitson (starting at 16:53) from the Summer of 2009. [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]
22 Jun 2011, 12:33 pm
(David Bernstein) I missed out on most of the Weiner controversy while on vacation. [read post]
1 Feb 2011, 11:02 am
(David Bernstein) I ran my DNA through the “EuroDNACalc” program and got the following results: NORTHWEST EURO: Maximum Likelihood Estimate=20% Interval=[0, 53] SOUTHEAST EURO: Maximum Likelihood Estimate=44% Interval=[4, 81] ASHKENAZI JEWISH: Maximum Likelihood Estimate=36% Interval=[14, 60]From a different source on 23 and Me, it appears that approximately 60% of people who have sent their DNA sample to the company and who share some of my genes identify themselves as… [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]
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]
18 Apr 2010, 4:52 am
There's been a curious blog-flap involving Dahlia Lithwick's column observing and joining the lament among ACS-types that none of their icons seems to appear on the Great Mentioner's lists for the Supreme Court nomination to fill Justice Stevens's seat, with responses by David Bernstein and Jonathan Adler. [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 3:54 pm
(David Bernstein) Here’s an article that reads like a parody, but isn’t. [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]
20 Sep 2010, 7:40 am
(David Bernstein) In Tamraz v. [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]
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]
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]
29 Nov 2011, 4:25 pm
(David Bernstein) My latest article in the Green Bag (link will open seven-page PDF file): (1) First, social reform was not in nearly as much danger from Lochner as the standard story suggests.... (2) The supposed simple-minded formalism of late nineteenth and early twentieth century judges has been called into serious question by recent scholarship.... (3) Brandeis’s Muller brief was not as original as his admirers have suggested.... (4) Brandeis’s brief was not… [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]
6 Mar 2011, 8:23 pm
(David Bernstein) As regular readers know, I’ve been highly critical of Professor Stephen Walt for his shoddy coauthored “Israel Lobby” book.One response of my critics has been along the lines of “how dare an ignoramus like you criticize a great foreign policy expert like Stephen Walt. [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]
