Sunday Reading

By Aaron BadyJuly 14, 2013

Kerim Friedman:

John Roberts “was actually promoting a new sort of conservative lie”
Thurgood Marshall: “Constitutional requirements like probable cause are not fair-weather friends…”
“Can We Please, Just Once, Have A Real Teacher?”
Why Do We Have More Female Scholars, But Few Public Intellectuals?
“We regret that we cannot accept your historian joke in its present form…. ”
“it gave African-Americans something desegregation alone could not give them: political power”
“It is strange that the threats to Mr. Modi stopped after this period.”
“Gaining competitive advantage on exams and increasing creativity in business weren’t of the utmost concern to Buddha and other early meditation teachers.”
“she was defending herself against her allegedly abusive husband when she fired warning shots inside her home"

Frank Pasquale:

Require employers grossing more than $1 billion a year to pay workers at least $12.50 per hour.
Better: totally revamp tax laws to encourage employment, discourage executive looting (pages 140-146)
Irreversible change & America as failure cascade.
Global credit shock; time for a capital strike.
It's all mystery meat.
You are 33,000 times more likely to die of cancer than terrorism.
DHS budget ($60B) + military budget ($660B) about 100 times greater than NIH cancer research budget.
Global warming becomes financially real when insurers shun Miami.
Masks: often illegal for protesters; cool for corporate paramilitaries.
Privileged access to data.