Richard Posner
Gun Control Can Survive the Supreme Court
It’s a sign of the legalization of American politics that activists worry about being thwarted by the Supreme Court even before they’ve managed to pass anything: Although they haven’t yet squeezed any new regulations through Congress or the state legislatures, gun-control advocates already fear that the Supreme Court will invalidate whatever progress they achieve. READ MORE >>
Richard Posner Responds to Antonin Scalia’s Accusation of Lying
About That 'Failed' Stimulus...
Futility and Fatalism
Maybe the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. But what about fatalism? READ MORE >>
A Note from Executive Editor Isaac Chotiner
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-- Richard Posner defends Facebook. -- Tim Fernholz on the Christian right's campaign "to protect the wealthy from tax increases." -- William Saletan documents the Gingrich-Bin Laden alliance. READ MORE >>
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-- Richard Posner is not a fan of the Post's "Top Secret America" series. -- A thorough debunking of Stanley Kurtz's case that Barack Obama is a socialist. READ MORE >>
Possibly The Nuttiest Anti-Keynes Argument Ever
Niall Ferguson, in his review of Richard Posner's latest book, sounds like a genuine crackpot: “As an economic power,” Posner concludes, “we may go the way of the British Empire.” Indeed. It seems not to have struck the judge that British decline and the rise of Keynesianism went hand in hand. READ MORE >>
Blame Game
WASHINGTON -- In June 2008, before the financial implosions that would come a few months later, I asked two smart financiers who happened to be Republicans about the future of the seemingly shaky American economy. READ MORE >>
Today at TNR (December 30, 2009)
Barack Obama Has an Idiotic Obsession, and It Is Golf by Michelle Cottle The Amazing Story of How Esperanto Came to Be by Esther Schor READ MORE >>
