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Who among us hasn t looked out at the great edifice of human civilization in all its complexity, and thought Yeah okay but I could do it better ? Centuries of utopian communes, micronations, and seasteads have dreamed of rebuilding society from first principles, free from entrenched interests and the debris of the past. If you got all the laws and values just right, maybe you could prevent poverty and corruption from finding their first footholds. Do the liberty and justice for all thing, but for real.
And who among us, having had the dream, hasn t entered into multi-year negotiations with the government of Honduras? Taken advantage of a clause in the Honduras-Kuwait Treaty Of Reciprocal Investment guaranteeing them their right to pursue their vision unmolested? Raised millions in venture capital and bought land on a Caribbean island to turn it into a reality?
Is it time for the US to delay second Covid-19 shots?
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Study Links Not Prosecuting Misdemeanors To Lower Crime By
Justin Wise | April 4, 2021, 8:02 PM EDT A wave of progressives have entered U.S. district attorney s offices in recent years on platforms pledging to overhaul the criminal justice system. Some vowed to stop prosecuting certain nonviolent low-level offenses, arguing it was yielding little social benefit and causing significant harm to marginalized communities.
A new academic study on misdemeanor prosecution inside a Massachusetts district attorney s office may provide added support to that approach.
Published in late March as part of a working paper series from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the study finds that not prosecuting certain defendants charged with nonviolent misdemeanor offenses can substantially reduce the likelihood of their future contact with the criminal justice system. The effects of not prosecuting are estimated to be most pronounced for first-time defendants, the study note
April 1, 2021
Here’s a question I’ve been mulling in recent months: Is Alex Tabarrok right? Are people dying because our coronavirus response is far too conservative?
I don’t mean conservative in the politicized, left-right sense. Tabarrok, an economist at George Mason University and a blogger at Marginal Revolution, is a libertarian, and I am very much not. But over the past year, he has emerged as a relentless critic of America’s coronavirus response, in ways that left me feeling like a Burkean in our conversations.
He called for vastly more spending to build vaccine manufacturing capacity, for giving half-doses of Moderna’s vaccine and delaying second doses of Pfizer’s, for using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, for the Food and Drug Administration to authorize rapid at-home tests and for accelerating research through human challenge trials. The through line of Tabarrok’s critique is that regulators and politicians have been too cautious, too reluctant to upend old
Ezra Klein: Are we way too timid in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic?
Are people dying because our coronavirus response is far too conservative?
A sign requiring face masks is seen at Harmons Grocery store Monday, March 8, 2021, in Salt Lake City. Utah s statewide mask mandate will be lifted on April 10 under a measure that passed the full Legislature Friday, March 5, 2021. Republican Gov. Spencer Cox has said he plans to sign the bill. The bill lays out a new timeline for when Utah s COVID-19 restrictions applying to businesses, events, and schools would end. The mask mandate would still apply to gatherings of more than 50 people. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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