Monthly Archive: February 2010
Economic Finger Trap
Dani Rodrik on the Chinese trade imbalance vice grip: So we are left, it seems, with two equally unappetizing options. China can maintain its currency practices, but at the risk of large global macroeconomic...
More on Constitutional Powers
The other, other Publius describes the way in which the categories of persons subject to denial of due process rights has regularly and rapidly expanded over the last 9 years. We are perilously close,...
Financial Must-Read
Rortybomb takes on shadow banking and why the proposed Volcker Rule falls short. Be sure to follow the links. He’s got a lot of good information and the illustrations are very accessible to a...
Should we be capturing more terrorists?
On a practical level, Mark Thiessen’s case for capturing and torturing suspected terrorists in place of bombing them is pretty unpersuasive, mainly because he doesn’t have any proof that we lose a chance to...
Executive Power, 2010 Edition
Transplanted Lawyer wonders where the outrage is over the recent claim by the Obama Administration that it has the authority to assassinate US citizens believed to be terrorist participants, noting that this is an...
Separation of Powers and the Filibuster
I go back and forth on what I think about the propriety of the filibuster for legislative purposes, although I’m inclined towards the view that the filibuster is on the whole a good thing...
Fixing the IPCC
In the wake of Climategate, Clive Crook has some choice words for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chance.
Required Reading
Sonny Bunch interviews Matt Labash (whose best work can be found here, here and here). A teaser:
Pundit Gossip
Too weird not to link to: Noted historian Niall Ferguson shacks up with militant atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Hooray for Hops
Add this to the list of studies showing that beer, in moderation, is good for your health. That, in and of itself, is unremarkable. What is remarkable, however, is that we finally have undeniable...
Andy McCarthy is right….
…the Saints did play like champions. And it was a pretty damn good game right up until the end. After that interception, though, you could tell the Colts were rattled. Peyton Manning especially. That...
Bach BWV 82 (for Sunday)
I’m always amazed to read essays on classical music from the 18th and 19th centuries. The writers, often with no more musical training than I have (i.e. none), also would have necessarily had to...
Super Bowl Sunday
As an unaffiliated fan, I feel obligated to root for the Saints. Final prediction: 31-28 New Orleans.
The Architecture of Modernity & the Joy of Science
Ages, places, and nations sometimes have characteristic architectural forms. Sometimes these forms, like vinyl-clad McMansions, or the decrepit and vaguely totalitarian National Mall, tell you things about a culture that its members would rather...
Keep It Simple Stupid
Daniel Larison makes a point that should be blindingly obvious were it not for the need for our talking heads to turn every single election into a referendum on the talking heads’ own framing...
