Comments on: Michael Kinsley on age discrimination law

By: Ron Miler

Ron Miler — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:24:04 +0000

Hiring cases are just so hard to prove anyway. Who knows why an individual employer did not agree to make a hire?

Is it unfair for an employer to wonder whether the person’s career will be over as soon as they are up to speed to start making a meaningful contribution? Is it wrong for an employer to question whether someone who has already had success and does not need the job really has the “eye of the tiger” they would need to be successful?

Certainly, there are cases like this where your reaction is “that’s unfair.” Whether it is an “unfair” for which there should be a legal remedy is the question. I don’t think it is an easy question.

By: Walter Olson

Walter Olson — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:34:08 +0000

Kinsley isn’t far left.

By: smart dude

smart dude — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:28:06 +0000

The Michael Kinsley Rule:

When even a far left spectrum pundit recognizes an abusive law, its time to remove aforementioned law.

By: John David Galt

John David Galt — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:54:33 +0000

While there are reasonable arguments against the merits of this law, its ineffectiveness is not a product of the law itself, but of the Justice Dept’s failure — so far — to impose quotas on large companies, as they had to do to make the race-discrimination law actually work.