Security Theater, Now With New Gloves

Jeffrey Goldberg has two funny articles on new TSA standards regarding body searches.  Goldberg notes that this new policy has little effect but to try to coerce people into going through the body scanners.  If people are going to smuggle things on board aircraft, they'll do it in body cavities.  And considering the generally low…

The Importance Of Consistent Measurement

Ramesh Ponnuru notes that infant mortality is calculated differently in the US than in many other countries, and that life expectancy is affected by many non-health care related aspects.  When doing a cross-country comparison, one of the most important things to have is the knowledge that your data set is consistent; otherwise, you can come…