Leonidas Zelmanovitz

Jan 1, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Leonidas Zelmanovitz

Last month, I had a medical emergency and ended up in an ER. There, they solved the emergency by implanting a temporary device. The use of such a device implies an increased risk of 3 percent to 10 percent per day of having a severe infection, on top of limiting my mobility to the point of making it extremely difficult for me to leave home. Therefore, I hurried to consult a specialist to arrange for surgery to solve the problem definitively. He graciously received me the next day.

Aug 26, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Samuel Gregg |Titus Techera |Leonidas Zelmanovitz |Graham McAleer

August 26, 2024 A century after Keynes’s famous lecture, faith in economic interventionism persists across the political spectrum. On November 6, 1924, a tall Cambridge economist stood up and delivered the fourth annual Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture at Oxford University. Then, as now, public lectures allowed distinguished scholars to weigh in on sundry issues outside strictly academic settings.

Aug 26, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Robert D. Blackwill |Richard Fontaine |Titus Techera |Leonidas Zelmanovitz

In 2011, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that “the United States stands at a pivot point” in its geostrategic and geoeconomic position in world affairs. Her comment in an article published in Foreign Policy came at a time when the US was winding down its wars on terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan and when Europe seemed largely quiescent as it entered the third decade of the post-Soviet era.

Aug 22, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Leonidas Zelmanovitz |Graham McAleer |James Patterson |David Schaefer

August 22, 2024 As Brazil's example shows, price controls cannot solve the problems caused by lax monetary and fiscal policies. About forty years ago, Brazil’s elected president was incapacitated, and his vice-president took office. With a big mustache and painted hair “dark as a crow’s wing,” he looked the part of a populist Latin American politician out of the Comedy Central cast. Unfortunately, there were other less colorful but equally pathetic features of his time in office.

Jul 25, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Brent Orrell |Titus Techera |John O. McGinnis |Leonidas Zelmanovitz

Politics doesn’t just make strange bedfellows; it can also make self-dealing ones. A new study of the economic impact of the $787 billion 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is trying to tell us about the need to close the gap between intentions and outcomes by moving decision-making and accountability closer to the communities the federal government is trying to assist.