Outside the Beltway

Some interesting, if unworkable, ideas.

Why public attitudes are lagging real world performane.

Are we betraying the Founders?

Suddenly, old voters are aligning Democrat and young ones Republican.

Shockingly, most people aren’t economists.

A century-old tradition has gone by the wayside.

The psychologist who won a Nobel in economics is gone at 90.

Punditry, complexity, and democracy.

If we’re even bowling at all.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one . . .

Repeated academic integrity violations led to her forced ouster.

He appointed a third of the Justices but has the worst record before them in modern history.

The most important and controversial American diplomat of the postwar era is gone at 100.

What if one of the candidates is Hitler?

The innumeracy hurts.

When the obvious is controversial.

What does “complete victory” look like?

Will taking the war to Moscow change Putin’s calculus?

Back when people were kinder and man’s word was his bond.

After other controls are applied, household income is still a huge advantage.

Thoughts after reading Part 2 of the Reuter’s series, “Slavery’s Descendants”

They’re angry and yet having a good time.

The inevitable has happened. Now for the fallout.

A legal defense without merit.

After giving a softball interview, he apparently expected one in return.

Our surroundings quite literally change how we see the world.

Get me higher than the grocery bill.

A 5-4 ruling overturns a unanimous decision from 1985.

Debt-trap diplomacy has finally come home to roost.

The New York Times looks into ties between a DC area law school and the Supreme Court.

A key pathway to success for low-income citizens isn’t working.

The trailblazing Congresswoman is gone at 82.

UPenn law professor Amy Wax as a test case.

How dare people who paid for a cut-rate degree claim they paid for the good one?

Old men still bitter about where they went to college.

A brief foray into looking at Alabama state policy on fighting addiction.

Culling for the primary feeder job in American legal system begins in high school.

Understandable outrage at administrative complicity.

Too many jobs needlessly specify a bachelor’s.

A pending Supreme Court ruling could be more impactful than many realize.

Why millenia-old concrete outlasts its modern version.

In case you need some NYD reading.

Republicans are dying at a much higher rate than Democrats.

Wherein I examine UATX specifically.

Will discusses a nascent university and in doing so produced a cliched column about higher education.

The January 6 Committee recommends invoking the Insurrection Clause.