Dec 7, 2012

Friday Roundup, December 7th

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Filed Under: Bryan Caplan, James Q. Wilson, Jon Meacham, Lincoln's Code, Richard Reinsch, Spies and Commissars, The Upside-Down Constitution, Thomas Jefferson

• The next Liberty Law Talk is with John Fabian Witt on Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History.

• Energy in the Executive: Don’t miss Jeremy Bailey’s review in this space of Jon Meacham’s Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power.

• Nicholas Johnson, a frequent contributor to these pages, is interviewed on NRA Radio about his post “Bob Costas’ Supply-Side Gun Control Fallacy.”

• Bryan Caplan at Econ Log: Decadent Parenting or selfish reasons to have more kids.

• The Federalist Society opens discussion on lawyers and the War on Terror in the 2nd decade of conflict.

• Getting federalism right, Ilya Somin reviews Michael Greve’s The Upside-Down Constitution.

• Michael Ramsey on Arkansas Game and Fish Commission v. United States, “A Taking is a Taking.”

• John DiIulio reads James Q. Wilson in the Fall Claremont Review of Books.

• Via Meadia on Blue on Blue civil warfare.

• Bolshevism and the failure to rally. A look at Robert Service’s new book, Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution.