This data from the Pew Research Center illustrates just how connected the influx of illegal immigration into...
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I have a short piece [here is the pdf download link] in the current issue of Econ...
James Poulos thinks I’m wrong to advocate against Arthur Brooks’ culture war: Alas, the cultural conflict is...
[updated] Nate Silver puts several bullet-holes through this Wall Street Journal op-ed by Daniel Klein, which is...
Writing in National Review, Kevin Williamson lays waste the ‘magical thinking’ of supply-siders and the notion that...
I’ve given Phillip Blond another chance at convincing me of his vision but alas I find his...
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. Â 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...
