To Live and Breath in Beijing
“Foreign Correspondents as They Live and Breathe,” (New York Times, March 30, 2017) reports on the still deadly air pollution in China: Ian Johnson, a China correspondent, took out his phone to check Air...
Monthly Archive: April 2017
From Building Codes to Noisy Chickens, Children, and Public Needs
Well, to start with, property doesn’t have rights and the public doesn’t have needs. So when students are asked to compare values in these two phrases, confusion often results. The current Stoa Lincoln-Douglas topic is:...
Free Money for Freeways: Notes on Federal Transportation Reform
Billions are being invested upgrading U.S. railroads, including various new technologies. The federal government has little involvement in this upgrade. Railroad, apart from Amtrak, are privately owned and operated and when demand for services...
Brexit, Texit, Calexit, and the Future of China
Should the U.S. encourage China to further decentralize economic and political authority? Soft or full partition has been advocated for Iraq, Syria, and Libya. The politically-decentralized canton-nation of Switzerland, and past and modern city-states show the success of devolving political...
Ford’s Electric Cars in China: Good News or Bad?
Electric cars are popular with investors, and the New York Times reports on booming market value as “Tesla Passes Ford in Market Value as Investors Bet on the Future,” (April 3, 2017). Tesla’s Elon...