Writing in National Review, Kevin Williamson lays waste the ‘magical thinking’ of supply-siders and the notion that...
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I am perhaps four fifths of the way through the fourth of the Malazan books – House...
Via National Review, here’s an interesting article on Lithuania’s belt-tightening response to the financial crisis: Faced with...
Anti-stimulus sentiment ran high in the comments section of my (qualified) defense of the Obama Administration’s economic...
“If anyone tries to tell you that uncertainty about climate change is a reason for inaction, he’s...
Riffing off my last post, I’d like to take on two thoughts. First, here’s Yglesias:
Via Sociological Images is this pretty awesome “pro-capitalist” propaganda cartoon from 1948: The Miller Center of Public...
Matt Yglesias is in Denmark. I can sort of travel vicariously by blogging about Denmark as well,...
Responding to Ross Douthat’s latest column, Jamelle raises an interesting question: And finally, I wonder how Douthat...
Richard Posner has an interesting essay on John Maynard Keynes in The New Republic. I’m still trying...
One of the nice things about transitioning out of academic life and into professional life (if only...
“POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying...
Matt Yglesias points us to this chart, which is depressing enough on its own: Then, both he...
“By treating any and all social safety nets as irreversible steps on the Road to Serfdom, we...
The Wall Street Journal lists them so you don’t have to (with oddly tiny pictures and even...
~by jfxgillis I. Now and Then and Now Pope Benedict XVI issued an encyclical this week expressing...
E.D. thinks that market economics don’t apply to education. Chris disagrees, but thinks that market economics ultimately...
Then again, simply because the United States ceased to be a ‘real’ republic does not mean that...
Via Andrew, Felix Salmon pokes holes in a list of necessary reforms from Nassim Taleb: Taleb’s first...
I’m sure I’ve run this course long enough. I’ve been in constant contemplation of the merits of...
