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Interesting presentation by Brad deLong to the googleplex 'cause linking is an intrinsic good.
What would you do about Yoo at UC? Brad deLong contemplates a moral issue - can a colleague's tenure be challenged for his actions outside academia, and if so in what circumstances. At issue is Prof Yoo's long classified memo from the Department of Justice offering legal rationale for torture based…
More critique and backlash on the proposed financial bailout: Krugman in NYT monday Tanta at Calculated Risk forwards a Congressional communique - it is worth the read. I like the suggestion that bankers should have to write nice begging letters explaining their stupidity for each bond they sell to…
Man, Orin Kerr is working John Yoo like a speedbag right now. In his latest post at Volokh, he finds yet more evidence of Yoo's utter hypocrisy in defending the Bush administration's attempts to expand executive power. He provides this transcript of a portion of a talk Yoo gave at the Cato…