My Weekly Reading for March 31, 2024
By Ronald Bailey, Reason, April 2024. Excerpt: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that massively screwed up COVID-19 testing now wants to apply its vast bureaucratic acumen to all other laboratory developed tests (LDTs). By insisting on its recondite approval procedures, the FDA at the beginning of the pandemic stymied the rollout of COVID-19 tests developed by […]
My Weekly Reading and Viewing for February 18, 2024
By Eric Boehm, Reason, February 16, 2024 Excerpt: If there is the thinnest bit of a silver lining to be found in the untimely demise of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who reportedly died this week in prison, perhaps it is this: It is a well-timed reminder of how much Russia sucks. Most Americans […]
My Weekly Reading and Viewing for February 4, 2024
Two reading highlights and one viewing highlight. The 2 Reasons California’s YIMBY Reforms Are Failing by Christian Britschgi, Reason, January 30, 2024. Excerpt: So, what’s going on? Why haven’t other YIMBY housing laws kicked off a boom in new duplexes and transit-adjacent apartments as they have with ADUs? I’d boil it down to two […]
My Weekly Reading, January 28, 2024
Aaron Brown, Reason, January 23, 2024 Excerpt: Desmond gets more specific about what doesn’t cause poverty. He dismisses cultural explanations, such as single-parent households and declining marriage rates. He quickly dismisses the idea that the welfare state traps people in cycles of dependency, claiming that these arguments rely on anecdotal evidence, even though there’s a […]
My Weekly Reading – Econlib
Some highlights of my weekly reading. Ilya Somin, “Canadian Immigration Officials Block Citizenship Grant for Russian Immigrant Because She Was Convicted of the ‘Crime’ of Speaking Out Against Russia’s War of Ukraine,” Reason, Volokh Conspiracy, January 5, 2024. Excerpt from the article quoted by Somin: Kartasheva, 30, learned via her family that in late 2022 […]
