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Gary Galles

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  • Presidents May Want a Line-Item Veto, but Citizens May Not

    Presidents May Want a Line-Item Veto, but Citizens May Not0

    What if there were some political tool that many US Presidents (going back to Grant, and all of them, including both leading major-party candidates this year) at least since Nixon, have wanted? What if they also agreed with Nixon that the result would be reduced political pork? Would such bipartisan agreement mean that the tool

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  • How Can We Stop Serving Students So Poorly?

    How Can We Stop Serving Students So Poorly?1

    In 1942, there were 108,579 public school districts in the United States. By the 2020-21 school year, there were only 13,187. That massive consolidation of school districts was propelled by the belief that economies of scale created by larger school districts would lower costs and serve students better. Those presumed efficiencies have not, however, been demonstrated in practice.

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  • Why COVID-19 Models Aren’t Real Science

    Why COVID-19 Models Aren’t Real Science0

    Since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, Americans have been told countless times that public policy was based on Science (with a capital S) and that the public should just obey the scientists. But the accuracy of their predictions and the consequent appropriateness of policies seems to have been little better than Ask Dr. Science

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  • What C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Tells Us About the Coming Election

    What C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Tells Us About the Coming Election0

    Americans, finally facing the prospect of the mano-a-mano portion of the 2020 presidential campaign, have already learned that previous complainers about the negativity, underhandedness, and attack-dog nature of politics didn’t know how good they had it. Abetted by technologies that increase the reach and power of smear campaigns and by mechanisms that allow far more

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