Friday Roundup!
Happy Friday! Check out what Jeremy and I read this week:
Jeremy’s Picks
- Reason’s feature-length documentary on the failures — and horrors — of the Drug War. Reason
- The botched legacy of alcohol legalization after Prohibition, for which we are still feeling unintended consequences (see our piece on the Florida protectionist laws justified through upholding the “three-tiered-system.”) Reason
- Roberto Unger wants to free social theory from “Illusions of False Necessity.” YouTube
Sebastian’s Picks
- Conor Friedersdorf takes on the technocrats who want to eliminate hard currency: “Public-policy intellectuals are often taken by their own perception of simplicity and elegance, the desires of the governed be damned.” The Atlantic
- A great synopsis of the political theory and early history of left libertarianism (if you aren’t tired of hearing about it yet!) The American Conservative
- An honest reflection on the challenges of interracial dating, from a black guy’s perspective. Gawker