Unfortunately, this pragmatic case for fiscal policy runs into a different real-world problem: the obduracy of policymakers, who quickly turned to austerity policies, reaching for any argument they could find.
He said in a recent conversation that he has always tried to remain somewhat isolated before a Supreme Court argument, reaching out to colleagues at the law school and elsewhere by telephone to test points.
The case is the first one in the South to reach oral arguments before a federal judge.
With the drummer Tyshawn Sorey they make up Paradoxical Frog, a trio that can make free improvisation feel structurally inevitable, like the logical conclusion to a far-reaching argument.
In this excerpt, Hertzberg illuminates the far-reaching argument against the Bush Doctrine: The vision laid out in the Bush document is a vision of what used to be called, when we believed it to be the Soviet ambition, world domination.
"Why should some individuals bear the burden?" Mr. Roberts, arguing for the agency, said the property owners were making the far-reaching argument that the "mere enactment" of the moratorium amounted to a taking, without any consideration of the reasons for it or its actual impact.
Among the rebuttals to foreign criticism, arguments reaching far back into history -- an obsession in this country where most families can trace their ancestors back hundreds of years -- seem to be the most common.
We want to solve the housing crisis in principle, but as soon as it means building in our neck of the woods our self-interest kicks in, and we start reaching for green arguments as a cover for the truer, but less altruistic ones.
And what's really frustration is the way that male gamers on Twitter and in comments sections tend to try to derail the argument by reaching ridiculous conclusions.
His voting record is one of the most liberal in the Senate, but in his books, he tends to present two sides of each policy argument without reaching many firm conclusions.
Though it may be the case, as some would contend, that decentralized giving is the most efficient means of reaching the poor, the argument rests on the assumption that human beings give efficiently.
