Jul 21st, 2010 by ravi
Richard Posner on Chief Justice John Roberts

Richard Posner, himself a conservative judge, recently wrote that four of the five most conservative justices since 1937 are together on the Court now: Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, and Samuel Alito. Many lawyers believe it would have been better had Roberts and Alito been forced to disclose their real substantive intentions in their hearings because they would not have been confirmed if they had. Posner said of Roberts: “The tension between what he said at his confirmation hearing and what he is doing as a Justice is a blow to Roberts’s reputation for candor and further debasement of the already debased currency of the testimony of nominees at judicial confirmation hearings.

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Jul 1st, 2010 by ravi
Lefty Cartoons on our national relationship with Keynes

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A cartoon that was inspired by Paul Krugman’s article “How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?”

(Thanks to Massimo Pigliucci for pointing me to this cartoon blog)

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