peculiar, bizarre, and mind bending article. I was leafing through the magazine when I saw the name Richard Wrangham, then I knew I had to read.

My time in Italy is filled with compromise when it comes to drinking beer or cider. Even the imports dissapoint.

Is someone actually suggesting that there are reasonably coveted Italian beers?

This was in the news today. How do votes like this square with your transparency agenda?

I'm sure I made endless typos. But this one needed fixing ASAP> And sure I'd be happy to chat about this more with you, though I've done this work for a decade now and I know where it will lead. I am continually in shock how people with good intentions can be such suckers.

examples I agree with, and lament as I do my work. Because for a pro-transparency advocate to take the data seriously they have a massive challenge. As transparency increases anywhere around the world, the outcomes decrease. So anecdotes are the only salvation they have. Sad, really.

I mean sure I could write a paper that focuses on the people who died after taking a polio vaccine and use it to lambast the vaccine in general. But know how sadistic that would be. Your paper uses this same approach. You pick out a couple examples where transparency clearly helped....

...and their combined work shows Schudson slowly transitioning from a pro-transparency absolutist (yes I've spoken with him many times on the subject) to someone far more critical. So you cite their work, but somehow ignore any of their critiques.

But writing as you do in 2020, especially a FOIA centric piece, one would question why you make such little use of the Pozen/Schudson work, which you cite multiple times. Pozen's personal work is a powerful critique of FOIA

Further you are fair enough (for what appears to be - from your paper - a pro-transparency absolutist) to notice that Madison did not endorse government transparency in his celebrated quote. But to dig deeper and list him as an advocate for secrecy appears disingenuous. His history is thick here.

I'm not sure how even Justice Story (who's writing leans on your side) could follow the history and drafting of Article I, Section 5 and label it as a pro-transparency clause. The clause was lifted and wildly strengthened from the Articles of Confederation. The enhanced secrecy enraged Patrick Henry

Happens in every conversation I have with ChatGPT

Which could mean that the secret ballot worked both times as expected, and once it became a repeat game dynamics change.