Month: December 2015

In my black market Rhino horn post yesterday, I mentioned that a recent proposal to legalize a market in sustainably harvested Rhino horn: . . . highlights some pretty standard…

Over at Market Design blog, Al Roth flags an interesting controversy developing in South Africa – whether to abandon the current ban on Rhino horn and horn products, in favor…

The recent dining hall controversies at Oberlin and elsewhere have put me in mind of this 1998 column I published in the Chicago Trib: As a child I understood very…

Yesterday having been Christmas, my wife and I went to a movie (we skipped the Chinese food, however; it’s not the same without the kids). Because there is always a…

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 12/18/15, there are 101,540 2016 applications submitted by 17,987 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 2.9% and applications are down…

Back on December 4, Whittier Law Professor Sheldon Lyke wrote a post here on TFL which was sharply critical of Law School Transparency. In fact, he accused Law School Transparency ...

In an otherwise very favorable review of my book, The Colored Hero of Harper’s Ferry, Wayne Wolf concludes that it “displays an obvious bias toward Northern abolitionist thinking.”  Well, yes,…

Over at Marginal Revolution, Alex Tabarrok discusses a new NBER paper, Accounting for the Rise in College Tuition, by Grey Gordon and Aaron Hedlund: Grey Gordon and Aaron Hedlund create a sophisticated…

Jeb Bush recently called Donald Trump a "jerk."  Without comment on their respective candidacies, I don't think Jeb! gained any ground.  Trump is a master insulter because his comments evoke…

Around these parts, the discussion of William Saunders is continuing.  (We used to have a building on the UNC campus named after him.)  On January 25 the Parr Center for…