Favorite Rejects 2022

Liam Bright @lastpositivist

I wrote an angry blog post to make everyone hate me. On attitudes to punishment and reconciliation among leftists.

sootyempiric.blogspot.comA Brief But Angry PostToday’s post is about a thing that frequently makes me angry. This particular blog post is sparked by this piece on the breakdown of a disp...

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

People who want stricter gun laws dramatically outnumber people who want laxer rules, which generates the anti-gun sentiment we see in the discourse. But 41% of the public are happy with the status quo.

Sara Eisen @SaraEisen

This policy of Covid testing before entering the U.S. seems out of date and ineffective. via ⁦@nytimes⁩

nytimes.comTesting Positive and Using the ‘Backdoor’ to Get Into the U.S.Entering the United States by air requires a negative coronavirus test. Some people who can’t provide one are using a workaround: flying to Canada or Mexico, then entering via a land border.

Arpit Gupta @arpitrage

This WSJ story about the crypto crash is a good time to revisit Matt Levine's favored securities regulation regime: wsj.com/articles/terra…

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

I think thinking like this shapes a lot of the perception that living standards are falling. American culture encourages people to aim high. So people aspire to live in one of their metro area’s most desirable neighborhoods.

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

And rising wealth means that homes in the most desirable neighborhoods are getting expensive much faster than the median home. So some folks mistake their inability to buy into an exclusive neighborhood for a general decline in affordability.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I semi-agree with this characterization — "doing nothing" is good politics (there's a reason Larry Hogan and Charlie Baker and Susan Collins and Joe Manchin are all so popular!) and while that doesn't mean you should never do anything, people should have their eyes open.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Own the developers by making it see easy to get permits to build new housing by right that construction crews just do it on their own.