The more difficult times are, the more intense the demand for simple solutions. This seems to be the case for both individuals and groups, be they corporations, religions, or nations. The February 25, 2010 issue of the New York Review of Books carried some short essays on Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997). Nicholas Kristof of the New […]
National Affairs on “The Ideology of Hom
My friend, Vin Cannato, has published a nice piece on home ownership in the Spring 2010 issue of National Affairs. Cannato writes, Through a combination of heedless public policy and reckless lending, the benefits of home ownership had come to be exaggerated; the risks and drawbacks had been obscured from public view; and entry into […]
Research Resource: Online Archive of The...
The Public Interest was founded in 1965 by Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol and ceased publication in 2005. It was a very influential journal of policy and political thought, and at its best featured top writers from across the political spectrum. The Public Interest often was critical of the status quo, and regularly argued for […]
Lecture on Unintended Consequences and I...
Christopher DeMuth, former head of the American Enterprise Institute, and now its D. C. Searle Senior Fellow, gave a lecture on public policy this past June. He reviewed the neoconservative and Chicago free market criticisms of government action, and focuses much of his lecture on regulatory policy. DeMuth forcefully argued that regulation frequently has unintended […]