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How the Pentagon Betrayed President Trump on January 6
On January 6, 2021, nearly five hours passed between the breach of the Capitol perimeter and the arrival of a National Guard contingent ready and waiting to deploy just ten minutes away. Had the National Guard arrived within that first hour, “January 6” would have no more historical resonance than any other day on the […]
It’s Time to Confront Failures of Justice (Part IV)
This is the fourth in a five-part series where we’re guest blogging about our new book Confronting Failures of Justice: Getting Away With Murder and Rape, available here. In the previous posts we examined the frequency of failures of justice and their costs. Good public policy (including legal rules) needs to balance competing societal interests, […]
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: The Case of the 17,000 Missing Kidneys
There are more than 100,000 Americans on the waiting lists to receive an organ transplant, and many of them will die without ever getting one. At least some of those lives would be saved if the monopoly government contractors managing America’s organ donation system weren’t so bad at their jobs, argues Jennifer Erickson. “Monopolies don’t […]
Archives: October 2024
15 years ago October 2009 “The Federal Reserve’s monetary base statistics show that in the last year the money in circulation has increased far faster than at any other point in American history. Thus, by the dictionary definition, we have inflation. But prices have been relatively stable because downward recessionary pressures are currently counterbalancing the […]
How the Pentagon Betrayed President Trump on January 6
On January 6, 2021, nearly five hours passed between the breach of the Capitol perimeter and the arrival of a National Guard contingent ready and waiting to deploy just ten minutes away. Had the National Guard arrived within that first hour, “January 6” would have no more historical resonance than any other day on the […]
It’s Time to Confront Failures of Justice (Part IV)
This is the fourth in a five-part series where we’re guest blogging about our new book Confronting Failures of Justice: Getting Away With Murder and Rape, available here. In the previous posts we examined the frequency of failures of justice and their costs. Good public policy (including legal rules) needs to balance competing societal interests, […]
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: The Case of the 17,000 Missing Kidneys
There are more than 100,000 Americans on the waiting lists to receive an organ transplant, and many of them will die without ever getting one. At least some of those lives would be saved if the monopoly government contractors managing America’s organ donation system weren’t so bad at their jobs, argues Jennifer Erickson. “Monopolies don’t […]
Archives: October 2024
15 years ago October 2009 “The Federal Reserve’s monetary base statistics show that in the last year the money in circulation has increased far faster than at any other point in American history. Thus, by the dictionary definition, we have inflation. But prices have been relatively stable because downward recessionary pressures are currently counterbalancing the […]