http://toddseavey.com/2007/02/01/book-selection-of-the-month-the-death-of-common-sense-by-philip-k-howard/ Conservatism for punks. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:17:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 http://toddseavey.com/2007/02/01/book-selection-of-the-month-the-death-of-common-sense-by-philip-k-howard/#comment-17325 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:52:24 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/02/01/book-selection-of-the-month-the-death-of-common-sense-by-philip-k-howard/#comment-17325 [...] The pros and cons of loser pays will be the topic of discussion this week on NewTalk.org, a civility-encouraging political-discourse project of libertarian lawyer Philip K. Howard, whose minions include my non-libertarian but nonetheless swell friend Jenny Foreit and whose book The Death of Common Sense nonetheless does wonders to angry up the blood against nonsensical laws. [...] […] The pros and cons of loser pays will be the topic of discussion this week on NewTalk.org, a civility-encouraging political-discourse project of libertarian lawyer Philip K. Howard, whose minions include my non-libertarian but nonetheless swell friend Jenny Foreit and whose book The Death of Common Sense nonetheless does wonders to angry up the blood against nonsensical laws. […]

]]> http://toddseavey.com/2007/02/01/book-selection-of-the-month-the-death-of-common-sense-by-philip-k-howard/#comment-15348 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:05:30 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/02/01/book-selection-of-the-month-the-death-of-common-sense-by-philip-k-howard/#comment-15348 [...] And on another less-partisan note, let me add that though I nearly always expect government to do a worse job than the market would with the same resources, I do not think it follows that government is always completely ineducable.  Indeed, my friend Jenny Foreit, yet another Brown alum and no right-winger, now works for libertarian-leaning Philip K. Howard’s Common Good project (his book The Death of Common Sense was one of the first Book Selections I picked on this blog), trying to find smarter ways to handle law and legislation but without just being shrill anarchists about it like yours truly: Here’s a sample of the dialogue they’ve begun, involving New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg and others, on how to improve government, a subject left and right alike are increasingly interested in — and a subject that the Republican Congress perhaps should have taken a greater interest in before the brutal electoral smackdown they received in 2006 — but for that year, we must await my next two Retro-Journal entries, and in the meantime I have a train to catch. [...] […] And on another less-partisan note, let me add that though I nearly always expect government to do a worse job than the market would with the same resources, I do not think it follows that government is always completely ineducable.  Indeed, my friend Jenny Foreit, yet another Brown alum and no right-winger, now works for libertarian-leaning Philip K. Howard’s Common Good project (his book The Death of Common Sense was one of the first Book Selections I picked on this blog), trying to find smarter ways to handle law and legislation but without just being shrill anarchists about it like yours truly: Here’s a sample of the dialogue they’ve begun, involving New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg and others, on how to improve government, a subject left and right alike are increasingly interested in — and a subject that the Republican Congress perhaps should have taken a greater interest in before the brutal electoral smackdown they received in 2006 — but for that year, we must await my next two Retro-Journal entries, and in the meantime I have a train to catch. […]

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