Using the Core in politics

One month ago Maria Cavallo wrote a nice article for the Columbia Spectator that we failed to advertise. Check it out!

Good Intentions =/ Good Results

During an Econtalk episode from last summer, with host Russ Roberts and guest William Easterly, a great quote surfaced.

"The notion that through the workings of an entire system effects may be very different from, and even opposed to, intentions is surely the most important intellectual contribution that economic thought has made to the general understanding of social processes."

Kenneth Arrow

Sackett v EPA

How wonderful, the E.P.A. can't issue compliance orders, and proceed to prevent you from challenging that compliance order in court.

They don't get their property back, their millions of dollars in fines removed, an apology, or a prosecution of the criminal bureaucrats involved in this case. All the Sackett's have won is the right to go to court, which I guess is something American citizens do not have by default.

Reason TV
NYTimes

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The Screwed Generation

An interesting read on young, college-aged liberals and the Ron Paul campaign.

"How Ron Paul rocked our family" by Jo Ann Cavallo

Here is a great article written by a Columbia faculty member about Ron Paul. There is a ton of comments on the page, which seems to support my opinion that Ron Paul's candidacy is great for political discourse, even amongst people who don't like him.