Newmark's Door

With its "plot nonexistent" the book my children loved is going to celebrated on a U.S. stamp.

"Slick’s stories are often quite like the lyrics in White Rabbit – populated by all kinds of weird and wonderful characters and events."

Summary of findings of an interesting-sounding new book.

Kemi Badenoch, now leader of the UK's Conservative Party, states that when she read Sowell's Basic Economics, her "whole world changed". Just wait until she reads Conflict of Visions!

Favorable review of Nicole Gelinas, Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car. With this key sentence from the conclusion: "As she chronicles time and again, the supposed experts can get things terribly, terribly wrong."

Michel Houellebecq, Junot Diaz, and 98 others.

". . . Dr. Marty Makary examines how some of the medical establishment’s biggest health recommendations in recent decades have been unfounded and even dangerous."

Steven Hayward very favorably reviews--"a triumph of the biographical art"--Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative.

Brief reviews of three excellent introductory economics books. I'd add Trade-Offs: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social Issues, 2nd ed. to the list.

A review of a new book by Justice Gorsuch. A highlight from the review:

His book cites guesstimates that U.S. statutory law runs to 60,000 pages, with another 188,000 pages of regulations, which delineate 300,000 criminal sanctions . . . 

How did it come to this? “That is the question of the book, and I don’t have a complete answer for you,” Justice Gorsuch says. But it involves a shift “both up and across in our separation of powers.” By “up” he means a movement of responsibilities from states and localities to Washington. By “across” he means a flow of authority from Congress to the D.C. agency apparatus.

Which plays to two of my favorite political points: we need less federal government (and more federalism) and less bureaucracy at all levels.

Very much related, with more details on the rabbit story: "Justice Gorsuch on the Administrative State". (Yes, I know one story does not an argument make. But, c'mon, it's one heck of a story.)