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“In the spirit of Apollo, with the determination of the Manhattan Project”: Nixon’s Project Independence 27 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
When Arab oil exporters imposed their embargo on the U.S. and the Netherlands in October 1973, George Schultz noted that the United Kingdom and France faced hardly any problem accessing crude oil supp...
Energy imports and energy security: a view from 1970 26 Aug 2013 | 05:13 pm
A few weeks back George Schultz posted a few happy memories on a Hoover Institution website from his time heading Nixon’s Cabinet Task Force on Oil Import Control way back in 1969 and 1970. The task f...
Will domestic health and tourism concerns lead China to curb pollution? 15 Aug 2013 | 01:05 am
Take these two facts and consider them together: (1) China’s air quality has been notoriously poor for the past three decades or so; and (2) according to the BP statistical Review of World Energy, Chi...
Exit, Voice, and LP&L 13 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
For many years Lubbock, Texas was the largest or among the largest cities with dual, competing electric utilities. If a consumer was unhappy with utility A, all it took was a phone call and about thre...
Raisin’ a complaint against USDA marketing orders 13 Aug 2013 | 12:57 am
Can raisin growers pack and sell all of the raisins they grow? Yes, but only if the USDA permits it. Sometimes the USDA claims the right to take raisins off the market in the effort to keep the price ...
Lysander Spooner on government surveillance 10 Aug 2013 | 10:47 pm
Put yourself in the 1830s-1840s United States. What was the most disruptive, anti-establishment, anti-authoritarian activity going on at the time? Abolitionist, anti-slavery advocacy, organized nation...
The NSA Surveillance Dictionary 9 Aug 2013 | 10:41 pm
I meant to include this wry article in my previous post on surveillance, abuse of power, and abuse of language, but then I decided that it deserves its own post. Rather in the spirit of Ambrose Bierce...
Language, deception, and the people comprising the surveillance state 9 Aug 2013 | 09:38 pm
Newspeak, anyone? Language has long been a tool for persuasion and in the fight against tyranny and oppression, and in 1984 George Orwell pointed out how important language is when he featured the eff...
“If your toilet’s so smart, how come I can hack it?” 5 Aug 2013 | 10:33 pm
Thus reads the headlines on David Meyer’s Gigaom post on news that the Satis toilet, manufactured by the Japanese firm Lixii, comes with a smartphone app that can be used to control any Satis toilet (...
Bruce Yandle on bootleggers & Baptists 5 Aug 2013 | 10:22 pm
Bruce Yandle’s “bootleggers & Baptists” model of political coalition formation is one of the most useful models in the political economy of regulation (and one that both Mike and I employ frequently, ...
