June 2012 Archives
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Monday, Jun 11, 2012, 5:43 PM
A Fickle Nanny State
Progressives have been guilty of letting our temperament rather than our reason guide policies toward vices; bans on activities like drug use are seen as naïve or old-fashioned, but legal vices like cigarette smoking are public-health or collective-action problems to be solved through brute government action.
Jack Meserve
Events
Democracy, Brennan Center Co-Host Money-in-Politics Event
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas: On May 7, the Brennan Center for Justice, a New York City-based public policy institute, hosted a panel discussion co-sponsored by Democracy and Demos on money in politics, the subject of Democracy’s centerpiece symposium in the Winter 2013 issue.
News
Washington Post Interviews Kleiman on Crime Policy
The Washington Post: In a March 28 post in The Washington Post’s Wonkblog, Dylan Matthews interviewed UCLA professor Mark Kleiman about his essay, “Smart on Crime,” in the current issue of Democracy.
News
Klein Cites Democracy Essay on Defense Spending
Bloomberg: In his Bloomberg View column on February 13, Ezra Klein discussed the politics of military spending and highlighted a number of quotes from former Representative Barney Frank’s feature contribution to Democracy’s Winter 2013 issue.



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The Gun Deaths Not Talked About (1)
Fatima Sajjad on
The Middle East Is Changing, But Is U.S. Policy? (2)
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City Services Are a Zero-Sum Game (3)