I have a short contribution up about presumed consent and organ donation over at the New York Times’s Room for Debate Section. If you are interested in following up some of the ideas, see this blog post or this law review article.
Influential upon myself, I mean. Everyone else is doing it, at least for “American/white/politics/economics/mostly libertarian type guys” values of “everyone”. I suck at lists like this. It’s hard to give an honest answer, in part because I’m not prone to conscious conversion experiences, but mostly because I’m good at repressing things and so really find […]
CLYTAEMNESTRA Citizens of Argos, you Elders present here, I shall not be ashamed to confess in your presence my fondness for my CEO, billions of dollars of losses notwithstanding. First and foremost, it is a terrible evil for a wife to sit forlorn at one of her several homes, severed from her husband, always hearing […]
Consulting companies make you less boring to college admisisons officers.
Kids! This is what happens when you don’t read enough!
Minority Report gives us a detailed vision of Washington, D.C. in 2054. Is it plausible?
Reading the newspapers this morning, I’m struck by the fascinating reaction to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that the phrase `under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional. The response from legal commentators is that the decision will be overturned quickly, and rightly so. The reasoning is that the Supreme Court has […]
The Irish Times quotes a senior Indian military officer today: “They (the governing Bharatiya Janata Party) are fully aware that if they try backing down or blinking (in front of Pakistan) this time round, they face political oblivion,” said an officer, declining to be identified. I’m wondering what sort of mind reasons like this, to […]
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