Now You're Talking

I always enjoy reading the Becker-Posner blog since they don't give a damn. They discuss big issues through the prism of economics (their version of economics) and come up with answers that are anathema to most politicians.

For instance, this week they're asking why did black Americans make so much progress before modern civil rights laws, but seemed to have stopped that progress in the last couple decades.

Even the question is rarely discussed (or its premise believed). Their solutions? School vouchers, legalized drugs, abolition of the minimum wage, that sort of stuff. These things have little or no chance of happening, but it's so nice to hear this instead of the typical Washington solution--more money for more of the same.