Religion in the US The Chicago Sun-Times has an interesting story about how dramatically the religious composition of the US has changed over the past decade. The results are summed…
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Yes, Virginia, there really IS a (rapidly-increasing) possibility of a healthcare insurance public option. The private insurance companies are inviting it.
…option–may well soon become the very thinkable. The “right,” in that last paragraph, refers to U.Chicago Business School economist John Cochrane and a recent article of his that my post’s…
“Sit In The Back of The Bus, I want this Seat”
I grew up in the city of Chicago in the fifties and sixties. When I was going into the military, I saw the west side of Chicago burning as I…
The Etymology of the Cooptation of ‘Freedom’ by the Tea Party
…for it is a review of a newly published book by the man in question: Sunstein’s former University of Chicago law school colleague Richard Epstein titled “The Classical Liberal Constitution:…
Privatisation and government debt
…private sector activity. Commenter 6 June 2014 00:39 adds: I like the example of Chicago parking meters. To reduce a budget deficit Chicago sold off the rights to collect parking…
Male, Female, and Transgendered Athletes and the Future of Sports
…interest. For example, the 2014 World Series final between a team from Chicago and a South Korean team drew over 5.3 million viewers a game on ESPN, but the average…
Cochrane Fails to Make His Case for the Trump Tax Cut Again
…paper three years later, the same year in which Miller—who would go on to win the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences—moved to the University of Chicago Graduate School…
Labor Day
…about the workers hung in Chicago after the Haymarket Riot because the Chicago Tribune just about sealed their fate with a horrific attack on them? The Governor of Illinois pardoned…
hydroxychloroquine and Remdesivir Update
…treatment The University of Chicago Medicine recruited 125 people with Covid-19 into Gilead’s two Phase 3 clinical trials. Of those people, 113 had severe disease. All the patients have been…
Judges, Ideologues, Dogmatics, and Bad Decisions
…on the nation no matter the consequences. Some consequences of this sort of thinking of late include: District of Columbia v. Heller, McDonald v. City of Chicago, Shelby County v….
