Hans Bader

Hans Bader practices law in Washington, D.C. After studying economics and history at the University of Virginia and law at Harvard, he practiced civil-rights, international-trade, and constitutional law. He also once worked in the Education Department. Hans writes for CNSNews.com and has appeared on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal.” Contact him at hfb138@yahoo.com

Education

Hans BaderJune 25, 2019
1

Why is academia ideologically imbalanced?

Epistemic sphincter clenched.
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Law and Government

Hans BaderJune 25, 2019
0

Punitive child support collection practices backfire

If people are in debt, it doesn't make sense to take away their ability to pay their debt. But that…
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Hans BaderJune 21, 2019
1

New York restricts workplace speech and freedom of contract

Small employers can be at a huge disadvantage in discrimination lawsuits. That's because employers are forced to pay the worker's…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderJune 15, 2019
4

McDonald’s doesn’t make you obese

Myths, lies, and measuring tape.
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Hans BaderJune 14, 2019
1

New York makes rent control more severe

More evils of unintended consequences.
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Economy

Hans BaderJune 3, 2019
1

Democratic Convention boos critic of socialism

The strain of socialism backed by American Democrats is much more expensive and further to the left than the watered-down…
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Hans BaderJune 3, 2019
0

Yemen turns plague of locusts into dinner

People are often unwilling to try new foods, even when they are tasty and obviously healthy.
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Foreign Affairs

Hans BaderMay 23, 2019
0

Socialism killed countless whales and harmed the environment

Central planning kills - the rest of the natural environment, as well humans.
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Law and Government

Hans BaderMay 19, 2019
0

Illinois likely to impose illegal racial and gender quotas on companies

Illinois is America’s worst managed state based on measures such as cash solvency, budget solvency, ability to meet long-term spending commitments, and unfunded…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderMay 18, 2019
1

Extreme, deceptive ‘Equality Act’ passes House of Representatives

The Equality Act doesn't just add categories like ‘gender identity’ to existing law, or obliterate religious-freedom safeguards. It also fundamentally…
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Economy

Hans BaderMay 17, 2019
1

California makes housing scarcer

Housing in California will become even more scarce. California's legislature has shelved a bill that would result in more housing…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderMay 15, 2019
0

Internet hate-speech rules open a Pandora’s box of problems

Broad definitions of hate speech aren't based on the First Amendment. In the past, the Supreme Court has ruled that…
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Unyielding

Hans BaderMay 11, 2019
1

Dallas prosecutor encourages shoplifting

Leaving the windows broken.
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Economy

Hans BaderMay 5, 2019
1

Unemployment falls to 49-year low

Deregulation is having a significant positive effect on the economy. More, please.
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Science and Technology

Hans BaderMay 1, 2019
0

Scientists tout maggot sausages as meat alternative

Not all insects are boring to eat. If you microwave cicadas for a short time, they become quite tasty and…
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Economy

Hans BaderApril 27, 2019
0

Middle-class tax increases on the horizon

If even a small fraction of this proposed spending becomes a reality, government spending will consume a larger share of…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderApril 26, 2019
1

More teachers attacked as school discipline curbed

Curbing suspensions of willfully defiant students harms innocent African-Americans by reducing their ability to learn and be safe. After all,…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderApril 25, 2019
1

Bernie Sanders’s plan to give a terrorist killer the right to vote fails on many fronts

Being affected by government policies does not give people the right to vote on them. If it did, the whole…
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Politics

Hans BaderApril 24, 2019
0

Elizabeth Warren student loan proposal fraught with problems, not least its $640B price tag

Elizabeth Warren wants to use your tax dollars to pay off the student loans of some people, but not others.…
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Education

Hans BaderApril 23, 2019
1

Rewarding campus violence

If newspaper editors and college administrators praise the motivations of those who commit campus violence, and disparage the victims, that…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderApril 22, 2019
0

D.C. Government harasses landlords and paying tenants

New, hot regulation idea: requiring landlords to have social services workers on staff.
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Science and Technology

Hans BaderApril 22, 2019
2

Happy Earth Day: Celebrate nuclear power

Today is Earth Day. Celebrate it by opposing more politically-motivated closures of nuclear power plants. Nuclear reactors provide a steady…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderApril 21, 2019
2

Affordable housing: Living in shipping containers

Ways to lower the price of housing? Start with regulations that INCREASE the price.
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Politics

Hans BaderApril 20, 2019
1

Alarming rise in anti-Semitic attacks in Berlin

'A new report by Germany’s Research and Information Center for Anti-Semitism (RIAS) shows that violent anti-Semitism has risen in Germany’s…
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Economy

Hans BaderApril 20, 2019
0

Mortgage lenders are not homophobic

Journalists tend to be gullible or sensationalistic in reporting on allegations of bias or discrimination against minorities. They believe such…
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Education

Hans BaderApril 19, 2019
0

Illegal racial quotas coming to University of Texas student government

Racial quotas cannot be imposed just because minorities were discriminated against in the distant past.
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Education

Hans BaderApril 19, 2019
1

Student wrongly arrested for rating female classmates on Twitter

Even if the school has the power to discipline him for the speech, the criminal justice system doesn't have the…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderApril 17, 2019
3

Banning kidney sales kills 30,000 Americans every year

Strangely, the only participant in the transplant process who is forbidden to profit from the organ is the one who…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderApril 15, 2019
0

Lawyers should not have to attend law school before practicing law

Regulatory requirements always reduce access and increase prices.
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Unyielding

Hans BaderApril 14, 2019
0

Joe Biden trivializes severe pain

A crackdown on prescription opioids has gone too far, causing needless suffering for patients even as opioid abuse has become…
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Economy

Hans BaderApril 11, 2019
0

Congressional Democrats seek big spending increase

The federal budget deficit is staggeringly huge, and is expected to exceed $1 trillion this year. Congressional Democrats are trying…
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Unyielding

Hans BaderApril 10, 2019
1

Odds and ends

Parents whose children were shot last year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have filed 22 new lawsuits against the…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderApril 10, 2019
0

Officials spread ignorance about e-cigarettes

The dependence of some government programs on tobacco revenue may create a conflict of interest that gives some officials an…
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Education

Hans BaderApril 8, 2019
0

Collective punishment at the University of Tennessee

Ironically, if the University of Tennessee had singled out the two students who wore blackface for such mandatory training, courts…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderApril 6, 2019
0

Bernie Sanders calls voters racist, panders to race-baiter

Sanders should not have had anything to do with Al Sharpon, whom the Washington Post's Dana Milbank admits ‘burst onto…
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Unyielding

Hans BaderApril 5, 2019
0

Congress pressures tech giants to restrict speech

The Washington Post reports that “House Democrats plan to grill Facebook and Google next week on their efforts to stop…
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