The Price of Justice
During my years as a practicing attorney–that is, before I bagged my law career to return to academia–I often wondered whether justice could actually be called justice if it required…
Month: January 2018
Regulation, Freedom, and Costs
When, in a past life, I was teaching courses in business law, I would sometimes encounter a student who would opine that government regulation was the opposite of freedom. “Oh,…
Interest Groups versus Parties: Is the difference important?
Okay. So you get it that I don’t like parties. How, then, do we get anything accomplished as a society? Doesn’t it take party membership to win an election? And,…
Are Parties Inevitable?
The trouble with parties is that they tend to replace reasoned discourse with groupthink. What results is a lumping together of disparate issues in a manner that is then offered…