Daily Archive: December 3, 2010

Years ago, I read that Americans on average thought we spent something like a quarter of our budget on foreign aid. It was a ridiculous overestimate, both then and now, and I figured the...

So, I wake up this morning all hung over and whatnot and thus decide to spend the day doing nothing, and then I see that there’s a trackback thingy on my most recent blog...

I did it in a comment at First Things here. I wrote:

Highly recommended. Go read.

The quality of the recording is not great; but the music is amazing.

I quite commonly read blog commenters who argue that academics know less about the really important issues of politics than the average Joe. Let’s just specify what these folks are claiming. They’re claiming that...