Inequality and Political Remedies
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click...
Monthly Archive: June 2012
A Clash of Models
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Distribution of Agency
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How we got here
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Civilization: Endgame
I’m a huge fan of the Civilization series of computer games (also the board game upon which they’re totally not based, right, Sid?) This might be the greatest CivII-related thing I’ve ever seen.
Initial Thoughts on Stiglitz’s The Price of Inequality
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click...
Scales of Pareto Efficiency: Global and National
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposiumhere. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here. In...
Can we at least get Sam Wilkinson to agree that THIS art is inherently s**ty?
A moment of levity for those needing a brief respite from the intellectual heft of the Inequality Symposium:
The Positive Sum Outlook
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposiumhere. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here. By...
The League’s Inequality Symposium Starts Tomorrow
Tomorrow morning we will begin the League’s Inequality Symposium. It will go all day and beyond, until the conversation runs its course. A reminder to those that want to submit a post – it’s...
The Artist as Judge
Some months ago, I wrote of Marilynne Robinson that, Regardless of her political preferences, her worldview, in its starkly Calvinist way, and insofar as it’s expressed in those novels and Absence of Mind, is...
The FOX News – MSNBC Taste Test : Conclusions
So now I have sat through six hours of cable-news TV shows, three hours with FOXNews and three with MSNBC. After all of it, what exactly have I learned? (Other that this experience is...
Your righteous anger isn’t enough
The real lesson of Wisconsin is an important one for members of all parties: your righteous anger motivates you, not others. Winning the middle requires having something to vote for, not just to vote against.
Lard Pastry Crust
At Leaguefest someone asked me for my lard pastry crust recipe. I don’t remember who it was. I don’t even remember the person’s gender. I spent half of Leaguefest with a martini in my...
Peter Van Dyck–“Conservative” Artist?
[From an earlier version @ LoOG’s Dutch Courage sub-blog.] To me, these days, any artist whose work has a resemblance to its actual real-life subject is “conservative,” so too any artist whose sense of...
The FOX News – MSNBC Taste Test : Part II
Last week I decided to live-blog the primetime hours of both FOXNews and MSNBC so that I could decide for myself if each is as much of a group of hacks as their opponents...
Friday Night Jukebox
Because… well, just because. And: And: If I’d smoked pot as an undergrad I’d have a better excuse, I suppose. I’d always play the last one, just for fun, for people who weren’t Pink...
A Prometheus Review Unbound
(Editors Note: This preview contains spoilers after the jump. Like, major spoilers. Not the “you might get a hint” spoilers, but “wow, so that’s what’s going to happen!” spoilers. Just saying’. -TK) by Sam...
Contempt Of Court
One of the reasons I’m (slowly) working my way through the great and politically important cases in the Supreme Court’s history can be seen in high relief in a New York Times/CBS poll released...
AUCTIFICUS AEQUALITAS
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click...
