World’s Greatest Deliberative Body
Fantastic article on the modern Senate by George Packer – it’s a long one, but well worth the full read for those who have the time. For the totally inadequate, bullet-point version, Packer blames...
Daily Archive: August 11, 2010
On free markets
[updated] So, just to clarify a position I hold: My belief in free markets is based in the concept of failure. I believe in markets because I believe they allow for failure to occur....
Managed Ignorance Watch
The latest in managed ignorance: Voters think TARP passed under Obama, not Bush. So many corrections, so little time…
A Defense (Sort of) of Allan Bloom Against the Calumnies of Tyler Cowen
This comes 12 years too late, but I still think it’s worth correcting the record. In his otherwise wonderfully readable and acute book, In Praise of Commercial Culture, Tyler Cowen (now, of course, a...
