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A note to our British friends about abortion policy and actual abortion numbers
Relaxing or tightening limits on abortion might make little difference in the volume of abortions. But other policies might.
Jun 17
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Dean V. Williamson
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Nukes in the Time of MAGA
The volleying of ballistic missiles over the Levant has started. Now What?
Jun 16
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Crime in the Time of Tolerance
A Tale of Three Cities in Two Acts
Jun 12
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May 2025
On Vendettas and the George Floyd Effect
Homicides in Chicago 2018-2024 and in Cook County 1999-2020
May 28
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The Elites Are Revolting
The annual Eurovision contest continues to reveal divergence between the politics and preferences of the self-anointed elites and those of the European…
May 18
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The Fiction of Moderate Islam in Three Acts
Dear West: You can be Islamic. You can be Woke. You can respect constitutional governance. Choose one.
May 2
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April 2025
And Then There Was Ukraine
“AND THEN THERE WAS ..... KOREA.” Do we never learn?
Apr 28
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Who’s Afraid of Tariffs?
Tariffs and non-tariff barriers are bad for everyone unless you’re a poor fellow in South Korea in 1961.
Apr 3
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Dean V. Williamson
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March 2025
The Imperial Presidency
Complaints about an “Imperial Presidency” started with Nixon, but debate in the law journals has long involved an Imperial Administrative State.
Mar 19
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Dean V. Williamson
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The Conceit of the Surveillance-and-Vaccination Paradigm
If a bird gets the flu and nobody notices, is the world better off?
Mar 13
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The Conceit of the Surveillance-and-Vaccination Paradigm
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February 2025
Defunding the NGO Borg-osphere
Bad-by-design government procurement contracts with NGO’s may be generating waste, fraud and abuse on the order of $2 trillion a year.
Feb 27
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Who Runs Administrative Agencies?
“Personnel is policy,” but it is not an autonomous Deep State that makes policy. It’s a cadre of political appointees at the top of administrative…
Feb 11
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