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September 28, 2012

Friday Roundup, September 28th

Richard M. Reinsch II

Garett Jones at Econ Log matches unemployment benefits with a timeless beer song: 99 weeks of unemployment benefits on the wall, you take one down, spread it around, and it raises unemployment by how much?

Ted Frank directs our attention to the lengths the Justice Department will go to in order to defend the use of disparate impact theory as a tool in civil-rights litigation.

When States Go Broke: a new faculty book podcast by the Federalist Society featuring David Skeel and Richard Hynes. See also the book of the same title edited by Skeel and Peter Conti-Brown.

It’s good to live in the capital of the empire.

Is Richard Fisher America’s leading conservative voice?

Hadley Arkes on the “Ironies of Compelled Speech (link no longer available).”

Ryszard Legutko’s Letter from Poland.

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