Samir Chopra |
Everything Under The Sun |
One of the strangest objections to the presence of unions in the workplace is that unions make the workplace adversarial, that they introduce conflict into the relationship between the worker and the manager (or between the two classes), that rather than…
A couple of interesting comments in response to my post yesterday on Matthew Yglesias and Amazon.
First, Joel W. writes:
I’m not sure I agree with your point…I think the reason e-commerce and Amazon are less scary is that it is harder to charge…
Jay Goltz, ‘
proprietor of a small retail store’ as saying it is ‘impossible to make money competing with…
I’ve been reading and discussing Jonathan Baron‘s Against Bioethics(MIT Press, 2006) this semester – with the Faculty Discussion Group at the Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College. Roughly, Baron’s thesis is that utility-based…
Writing lifting reports can be extremely self-indulgent: look at me, I lift weight. But they can also be honest reckonings of weaknesses, failures, setbacks and all the other roadbumps that interfere with our smooth progress towards long-set goals. So I…
Orin Kerr suggests the story of the US Department of Justice seizing AP phone recordsisn’t one, wraps up with a flourish, hands out a few pokes at anti-government paranoia, and then asks a series of what he undoubtedly takes to be particularly incisive…
Last year, in a post on Goethe and Nietzsche, which invoked the Freedom program (to cure Internet distraction), and which noted the role constraints played in artistic creation, I had referred obliquely to a chapter in my book Decoding Liberation, in…
I should have 9511 stories about my mother. One for my every day of my life that she was alive. Today, I’ll recount just one of them.
As just-above-waist-high kids, my brother and I used the local park for our evening sports sessions. In the winters, this…
Like any doting first-time parents, my wife and I went a little photography-batty in the hours and days following our daughter’s birth. We had three cameras: two in phones, and one little Panasonic digital unit. We clicked away madly, recording every…
Graham Greene, quoted in Marie Françoise-Allan, The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1983, pp. 160
