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This New York Times article on the controversy that’s been a-brewin’ over the push for government-mandated licensing requirements for yoga instructors is a prime piece of head-scratching high comedy. When I first saw the headline I assumed the story would fall into the familiar pattern of cooperation between government and cartel, wherein the established and [...]
Filed under: government/law
Via Conor, here’s Ezra Klein on why chain restaurants should be required to post calorie counts: I used to eat lunch at Potbelly’s a lot. I do so rarely now. But my order is the same: Vegetarian on wheat with triple hot peppers, and a bag of Baked Lays. I’m having a bit of a [...]
Filed under: food, government/law
1. The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein conveniently argues that his employer needs government subsidies lest they should continue whoring themselves out to special interests; claims that the news is not a market good and that government-subsidized news in Sweden is adversarial and terrific. 2. Matt Welch pounces; points out that unlike wildlife viewing and snorkeling [...]
Filed under: government/law, media/culture
Via Radley Balko, the Independence Institute has a great little video on the problems with health insurance mandates: I’ll be the first to acknowledge that in a politically uncorrupted world, none of this would be an issue: health insurance is a public good, and as such it makes a good deal of sense to require [...]
Filed under: government/law, health care
by JL Wall Apparently the irony in the title of this brief post — “Round Up Hate-Promoters Now, Before Any More Holocaust Museum Attacks” — is lost on its author (h/t Jack Hunter). The logic of “Isn’t it time we started rounding up promoters of hate before they kill?” is exceptionally flawed and exceptionally dangerous. [...]
Filed under: civil liberties, government/law
So I have very little sense of what E.D. Kain is trying to argue in this post. In the first place, as I’ve emphasized before and as commenter Matt C. has helpfully noted, voucher programs don’t necessarily mean “subsidizing private industry”, as students could, for one reason or another, just as well be given vouchers [...]
Filed under: education, government/law
I’m not one bit inclined to get into yet another argument with Freddie et al over public and private education, but this is just silly: Private schools have far less accountability in the form of standardized testing than their public counterparts. Indeed, private school educational outcomes amount to self-reporting and the honor system. This is [...]
Filed under: education, government/law
In which I respond to Conor’s post on a terrific – and terrifying – essay by Johann Hari, by reposting a now-vaporized column I wrote on fishery depletion for Culture11, over at The American Scene. Here’s the nub: According to the conditions that prevail at the overwhelming majority of the world’s fisheries, many different fishermen [...]
Filed under: environment, food, government/law, personal
There’s one key moment in his diavlog with Matt Yglesias where James does to the “Let’s get government out of the marriage business altogether” response to the same-sex marriage conundrum what Mark Texeira has lately been doing to American League pitching: he destroys it. I’m not going to transcribe his remarks, but here’s the relevant [...]
Filed under: government/law, marriage, religion
Given my earlier remarks on the subject and my penchant for, well, agreeing with Daniel, it should come as little surprise that I agree with Daniel: Suppose for a moment that a conservative Catholic man in a similar position said that he hoped that the richness of his religious tradition would inform and shape his [...]
Filed under: government/law