Favorites June 26th 2022

January 2022, Stanford

Wally Nowinski @Nowooski

The reason Dems didn’t “codify Roe” is because at no point in the last fifty years did they have the votes to do it. Roe granted *far* more expansive reproductive rights than are available anywhere else in the West despite the fact the American electorate is more conservative.

He continues: the Roe ruling was good, but the votes just weren't there to make it law. And as for the rest of the West:

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@Noahpinion @Nowooski

I for one hod not realized that Europe's abortion laws were so strict. Of course they have better healthcare, so there's that. But like, my goodness, look at Finland.

Raj Mehta @raj_mehta

This peice by @Noahpinion captures so much of the disappointment that I have felt since the cancelation of OWS. We did the equivalent of the Apollo program in making these vaccines, and then dismantled the program out of short sightedness.

noahpinion.substack.comThe Biden administration has dropped the ball on vaccine developmentVaccines have saved tens of millions of lives. So why aren’t we making better ones?

Like an Apollo program that already saved millions of lives and had the potential to save millions more. WTF were we thinking. We saved a World War's worth of lives.

Donald Shoup @DonaldShoup

Developers—not planners—have both the right incentives and local knowledge needed to determine how much off-street parking is necessary. If a developer builds too little parking, they will have trouble selling it.

planetizen.comFour ‘Low-Hanging Fruit’ Zoning ReformsAn excerpt from the latest book on zoning argues for four approaches to reform that can immediately improve land use regulation in the United States.

Along with Shoup's favorite (eliminate minimum parking requirements), the other three are: End single family zoning, minimum lotsize/FAR requirements, and legalizing inherently cheaper forms of building.

jordan @JordanUhl

The price of insulin per unit in the United States is a total outlier among other OECD countries neverleave.substack.com/p/4-in-5-ameri…

This looks like a market failure that the government should be stepping in and fixing...

Threads

• Thread about legality of abortion in the 1700s. Very legal, and we can tell because it was reported on when things went badly (medicine in the 1700s was not so good).