American legal scholar, writer, blogger (b. 1954)
In commemoration, I’m reposting something I wtote about Justice Scalia at the time of his death. The title was “We shall not look upon his like again.” If constitutional government…
And David Henderson has written a typically insightful peice about it in the Wall Street Journal. Here’s the ending: In Mr. Thaler’s influential 2008 book “Nudge,” written with Harvard law…
Writing in Bloomberg, Cass R. Sunstein, former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012, welcomed the “interim guidance…
The Hill reports: President Trump on Monday signed an executive order that would require agencies to revoke two regulations for every new rule they want to issue. The executive order is aimed…
I did enjoy the following rant that, according to Reason.com, recently appeared on his Facebook page: What we are seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the…
View in your browser. If constitutional government survives in this country, much of the credit will go to one man — Antonin Scalia, who died on February 13th having served…
This week, President Obama issued an order directing executive departments and agencies to: (i) identify policies, programs, and operations where applying behavioral science insights may yield substantial improvements in public welfare, program outcomes,…
Chuck Ross reports for the Daily Caller on the Obama administration’s efforts to promote its agenda through more effective use of behavioral science and economics. President Obama announced a new…
Georgetown instructor David Cole might not see what’s so unsettling about libertarian paternalism, but his profile of Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein in the latest issue of The Atlantic…
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Gordon Crovitz lays out the ObamaCare reality. The Government Accountability Office last year calculated that for the IRS alone, implementing ObamaCare would be a…
The idea of “libertarian paternalism” has been much discussed since Cass Sunstein’s book entitled Nudge. Another book examining the ethics of this has recently been published and Duke’s Jon Anomaly…
The latest issue of Commentary magazine features Heather Wilhelm’s review of the new book from former Obama regulatory czar Cass Sunstein. In addition to noting the irony that a book…