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Ed Glaeser has an interesting post attempting to run the numbers for high speed rail. For my money, the most important point is that the thing that makes high speed rail problematic in most parts of the country is the absence of a tightly concentrated central business district. High speed rail makes sense in the [...]
Archive for the ‘Older Threads’ Category
June 10th, 2009
Category: Human rights, Immigration
Palau has agreed to take in the Uighurs — and has demonstrated just about every other nation’s hypocrisy and cowardice.
April 24th, 2009
Jon scooped me on this last night because I got home so late from the all-day meeting of the Air Resources Board that adopted the LCFS. I was there because my team at Berkeley (with another group at Davis and a subcontract to Purdue) did a large part of the supporting research for this [...]
March 6th, 2009
Why do so many people take so many opportunities to talk about how they are being silenced?
January 22nd, 2009
Should anyone really care that we don’t have a Commerce Secretary?
January 6th, 2009
Category: Civilian control
Isn’t the fact that so many in the CIA are telling the media that only one of theirs counts as a legitimate boss the single best reason for appointing from outside? The same goes for the military, in fact.
December 8th, 2008
Category: Genocide, Terrorism and its control
… at the prospect of an Obama Administration. Yes, it’s a complicated situation, but whatever makes Bashir afraid can’t be all bad, can it?
November 19th, 2008
Category: Americanism, Microeconomics and policy analysis
Are cash grants to all rural residents more “populist” than agricultural subsidies? Only if one mistakenly thinks that populism has something to do with equity.
November 10th, 2008
Category: Cabinet Speculation, Education policy
Let’s make the new Secretary of Education’s job easier, and take one worry off his plate.
November 9th, 2008
Category: Cabinet Speculation
I seriously doubt that Secretary of Education will be one of the cabinet positions chosen in the next couple of weeks. That’s good, because I hope that Obama’s advisors take the matter very seriously. The tendency will be to pluck an aggressive K-12 reformer out of the field-someone like Michelle Rhee from DC, or Joel [...]
