tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post428708642200512084..comments2024-02-16T11:41:37.696-05:00Comments on Todd Seavey: Book Selection of the Month: "The Death of Common Sense" by Philip K. HowardTodd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-78662730717139391322008-08-19T07:52:00.000-04:002008-08-19T07:52:00.000-04:00[...] The pros and cons of loser pays will be the ...[...] The pros and cons of loser pays will be the topic of discussion this week on NewTalk.org, a civility-encouraging political-discourse project of libertarian lawyer Philip K. Howard, whose minions include my non-libertarian but nonetheless swell friend Jenny Foreit and whose book The Death of Common Sense nonetheless does wonders to angry up the blood against nonsensical laws. [...]Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-73575596665806757682008-06-27T10:05:00.000-04:002008-06-27T10:05:00.000-04:00[...] And on another less-partisan note, let me ad...[...] And on another less-partisan note, let me add that though I nearly always expect government to do a worse job than the market would with the same resources, I do not think it follows that government is always completely ineducable. Indeed, my friend Jenny Foreit, yet another Brown alum and no right-winger, now works for libertarian-leaning Philip K. Howard’s Common Good project (his book The Death of Common Sense was one of the first Book Selections I picked on this blog), trying to find smarter ways to handle law and legislation but without just being shrill anarchists about it like yours truly: Here’s a sample of the dialogue they’ve begun, involving New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg and others, on how to improve government, a subject left and right alike are increasingly interested in — and a subject that the Republican Congress perhaps should have taken a greater interest in before the brutal electoral smackdown they received in 2006 — but for that year, we must await my next two Retro-Journal entries, and in the meantime I have a train to catch. [...]Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com