May 8, 2014
Routing a political dispute to the courts is the constitutional equivalent of appealing to one’s parents for relief from the bully on the block.
Friday Roundup, August 16th
- Can we Accelerate Democracy with new information technologies and more transparent rule following and accountability? John McGinnis thinks we can and he stopped by Liberty Law Talk to discuss these ideas.
- Did the War of 1812 reveal the failure of Jeffersonian ideology? Stephen Knott argues that it did in our feature review essay of a new anthology on the War of 1812.
- Can you incorporate the Tenth Amendment? After Printz, what would be the point?
- So, has Angela Merkel been reading her Pierre Manent?
- Something new on healthcare from the National Research Initiative at AEI: “[E]stablishing government financed premium supports to subsidize the cost of health insurance, eliminating incentives for employer-provided health insurance, allowing individualized premiums, and promoting long-term contracts.” Since there are no real policy proposals to counter Obamacare and the seeming drift toward single-payer, it is definitely worth a look.