Sam Ulmschneider

There is a pretty big “maybe spend a little less somehow?” zone between “anti-militarist isolationist” and “current military spending levels are totally reasonable” where I (and I hope many people) can sit. I’d be willing to listen to arguments about that from people more expert than me, of course!

fr though Marx would have been impressed as hell by Starbucks ability to cultivate new demand to satisfy where none previously existed in order to keep capitalism vital and thriving. Also would have immediately used custom coffee orders ppl have in common to explain commodity fetishism, I think.

I may not be down w the Institute for Justice on all their policy preferences or ideological turns but boy do they produce outstanding resources that help me, a non-specialist, keep abreast of interesting developments in circuit courts and big ideas in parts of the law and constitutional liberties.

I'll never put out fundraising appeals more than once a year, but it's that time of year. My We The People students are facing a $2,000/family bill to go to DC for a competition where nuance, discussion, analysis are prized above all. Help these future leaders out: app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/...

Fair, thanks! I’ve only read 3-4 articles about those systems myself and so am very unsure what to think.

Do you think the lay trials they use in Japan and much of Europe betray/undermine the spirit of jury trial or an innovation which can help improve that venerable and important institution and thus keep it strong? I’ve always been unsure leaning towards the second.

Probably the Stones. It’s also worth pointing out that history curricula in schools rarely even nod in the direction of cultural history, so non-English-class-worthy artistic movements and their virtuosos, whether we’re talking about jazz or early rock n roll or pulp magazines, never get class time.

whatever the AI companies are doing, it's working on basically everyone and I (not a neo-luddite! I admit it might have many good applications!) am left feeling like a character in Invasion of the Body Snatchers while students, colleagues, and friends use it in lieu of their minds more and more.

I dislike the whole premise of the clever little quiz here. People don't think or reason, nor does the poverty or wealth of a written passage emerge, from sub-paragraph level pull quotes like the ones the Times used to this piece. Can AI pull off a deceptively effective paragraph? I guess?

Yeah, that the legislation was complicated, got amended, and a bunch of lawmakers were equilibrating their positions on various votes as the legislation changed throughout the crisis. Madison always thought SOME departments needed Presidential removal, but his view changed during the bill's passage.

Sai Prakash's old old article on this is where I source my own filmsy grasp of it from, and he tracked Madison and allies in the Daily Advertiser as their views evolved week to week. Which to me just causes me to throw up my hands and despair about the originalist project a bit.

Actually, I take it back - I had the timeline wrong, it seems Madison got squishy between May and June of 1789, making it hard to pin him down.

as a teacher married to another public employee my lifelong strategy about whole foods is "don't go to whole foods because it's too goddamn expensive, also the Kroger workforce just down the road is one of the only union shops around."

I'll never put out fundraising appeals more than once a year, but it's that time of year. My We The People students are facing a $2,000/family bill to go to DC for a competition where nuance, discussion, analysis are prized above all. Help these future leaders out: app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/...

One of the fun things about teaching, if you do it right, is that you're always learning. I've spent this evening trying to understand how Japan does and doesn't use jury trial and it's both fascinating and bafflingly complicated.

Eight months is a long time in people's memories and in politics.

Right! To me it's not a question of whether voters notice rising gas prices and consumer downstream impacts, or even a surge in temporary media noise about bombings. It's about whether those memories persist for 8 months, sans a VERY savvy Dem campaign to etch 'em in stone in the GOP's image.

I hope that's true, and I think it would be if we were in a media environment a little more like those in the past. But in an increasingly social media regulated information environment, both issue permanency and issue penetration are significantly lower even (especially) for a war than they were.

If (big if) both sides back down in the next week or two, and if (big if) the economic disruption only lasts a month or two, I have a sinking feeling that the American electorate won't see the Iran campaign as a particularly salient factor in voting choice/turnout decisions.

Ar I, Sec. 8, Cl. 11:
The Congress shall have Power . . . To declare War.

Is this a war?
Obviously.

Has Congress declared it?
Obviously not.

Is it illegal?
Gosh, no one has Art III standing, so the answer is unknowable.

(Correct answer: something is obviously wrong with standing doctrine).

I don't think anyone answers her points abt the allegiance of the enslaved effectively anywhere in the rest of the panel. They're having their own very cloistered conversation about common law meanings. Wurman tries at about 1:08 but it's not clear to me this actually addresses enslaved people well.

Every once in a while I’m reminded that Hans Von Spikovsky was actually in a position of power in the Justice Department over voting rights for like, years, and I feel the need to take a shot of vodka or something to steady myself.

I feel like I’ve seen and heard Amanda Frost be super impressive? Won’t he look pretty wan and poorly researched next to her?

I want to shake people and be like, teachers WANT to assign whole books. you don't need to make it a legislative mandate! just give us appropriate autonomy and an incentive/evaluation structure which won't punish use of complex, long readings and full works - most teachers will jump in w both feet.

Tax brackets as a method of organizing taxation burdens are not a concept covered explicitly as a goal in the AP United States Government and Politics, AP Microeconomics, or AP Macroeconomics curricula.

If we're going to have quarterly grading deadlines at the high school level, teachers should get one full day at the end of each quarter as a workday in which to grade where no other demands are on their time like professional development, parent conferences, etc etc.

I don't love the regressive nature of a strong VAT tax but it seems to have taken the sting out of some race-to-the-bottom populist anti tax policies like no tax on tips and the proposal at issue in your original post. Another point in favor of using more VAT, less structured income taxation?

For people who know more about economics than me, which is basically everyone: how long will it take for higher fuel costs in transport to be reflected in US food and consumer prices? How big a component of those prices is fuel and transportation anyway?

For people who know more about economics than me, which is basically everyone: how long will it take for higher fuel costs in transport to be reflected in US food and consumer prices? How big a component of those prices is fuel and transportation anyway?