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16 Jun 2012, 7:00 pm
(Ilya Somin) In trying to justify his proposed regulation banning large-size sodas, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg cited the work of economists Brian Wansink and David Just. [read post]
7 Jan 2012, 7:39 pm
(Ilya Somin) In today’s Wall Street Journal, Jonah Lehrer has an article arguing that political ignorance makes democracy work better, and may even be essential to its survival. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 6:05 am
(Ilya Somin) With all the hoopla surrounding the individual mandate case, the media and most commentators have often given short shrift to the other big health care case the Supreme Court is about to decide: the constitutionality of the Obamacare’s massive expansion of Medicaid. [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 8:20 am
(Ilya Somin) In this recent SCOTUSblog post on the upcoming Supreme Court case of Fisher v. [read post]
9 Jan 2011, 10:54 pm
(Ilya Somin) In a recent post on Illinois’ plan to nearly double its state income tax, Megan McArdle writes:The state of Illinois is allegedly close to a deal to nearly double its income tax, from 3% to 5.25%.....The income tax increases.... are both workable and necessary. [read post]
15 Oct 2011, 12:53 pm
(Ilya Somin) Majority public opinion in Israel continues to support the recent deal in which the Israeli government traded over 1000 terrorist prisoners for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, which I criticized here. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 1:07 pm
(Ilya Somin) Today, we filed an amicus brief in Virginia v. [read post]
23 Aug 2010, 8:02 pm
(Ilya Somin) A few conservative commentators have advocated using the power of eminent domain to take the land on which the “Ground Zero mosque” is scheduled to be built (see here and here). [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 2:08 pm
(Ilya Somin) Today is the premier of the Hunger Games movie, and debate continues over the political message of the book series by Suzanne Collins on which the movie is based. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 9:53 pm
(Ilya Somin) As I noted in a recent post, the Pew Research Center survey of public knowledge of religion found that atheists and agnostics, Jews, and Mormons are the groups with by far the highest knowledge levels in this field. [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 3:19 pm
(Ilya Somin) Michigan federal district Judge George Caram Steeh just issued an opinion upholding the Obama health care plan’s individual mandate against a challenge by the conservative Thomas More Law Center and several individual plaintiffs who refuse to purchase health insurance by 2014 as the mandate requires. [read post]
14 May 2012, 12:48 pm
(Ilya Somin) Two recent studies find that state licensing regimes for small businesses impose severe burdens on consumers and entrepreneurs alike. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 7:15 am
(Ilya Somin) New Zealand economist Eric Crampton recently posted an interesting interview on organ markets that he did with Radio New Zealand. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 7:45 am
(Ilya Somin) Inspired by Bryan Caplan’s ideological Turing Test, atheist blogger Leah Libresco proposes a religious Turing test to measure the extent to which Christians and atheists understand the arguments of the other side [HT: Bryan Caplan]:Just like Caplan, I’d like to put my money where my mouth is and play in an ideological Turing Test against a Christian blogger. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 12:30 pm
(Ilya Somin) Libertarians, economists, and my fellow constitutional theorists are all known for arguing that the conventional wisdom overstates the importance of individual political leaders. [read post]
2 Apr 2011, 12:08 am
(Ilya Somin) Whenever we have an election, pundits and politicians wax eloquent about the supposed need to increase voter turnout. [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]
29 Aug 2012, 5:30 pm
(Ilya Somin) I am one of over 100 academics in various disciplines who signed a letter supporting Colorado Amendment 64, a referendum initiative which would legalize marijuana possession and sales in that state for residents over the age of 21, and generally institute a regulatory regime for marijuana similar to that currently in force for alcohol. [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 12:11 am
(Ilya Somin) Many conservatives and libertarians believe that the 1913 adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment — which requires that senators be elected by popular vote, rather than by state legislatures — was a great mistake that led to a vast expansion of federal power. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 7:15 am
(Ilya Somin) At the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog, political philosopher Jason Brennan asks:If you only read academic philosophy discussing orthodox right libertarianism, you might expect that libertarians are callous and indifferent to poverty. [read post]
