First Of All, Matt, That’s Not An Egg McMuffin…
Matt Yglesias achieves Maximum Voxosity with the Voxiest of all Vox articles ever.
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Give Money to Fancy Colleges, Including Harvard
Contrary to Matt Yglesias or Richard K. Vedder, Creon Critic argues why its really OK for people to give money to Harvard.
Why Matt Yglesias Is Wrong About Bangladesh
If Matt Yglesias sneezes you can bet there’s going to be a chorus of left-of-center tweeters ready to unleash a tidal wave of vitriol and scorn. So go ahead and guess how ugly things...
Note to Fix the Debt: Your Class Interest’s Showing
I guess the Fix the Debt folks are worried that their decades-long quest to roll back the New Deal and lower their own taxes is in peril, because they’re responding now to a Matt...
Market liberals
Matt Yglesias makes tons of sense with his latest foray into an ongoing debate between him and John Quiggin and others. I think Matt operates in that awkward position of being not-progressive-enough for much...
Reclaiming Liberalism
Matt Yglesias responds to Freddie’s post on the dearth of truly left-wing voices in the blogosphere, and lists his own economic goals as a way to illustrate his own views on liberalism: More redistribution...
The Moral Equivalent of Monarchy
Matt Yglesias plumps for monarchy, based on — what else? — human nature: [I]t seems inevitable in any country for some individual to end up serving the functional role of the king. Humans are...
Paul Ryan’s Budget
“If Obama’s efforts to create a viable regulatory framework in which individuals can buy private health insurance (a) pass congress, and (b) turn out to work well and be popular, then you can imagine...
caricatures & demons
It’s interesting to watch how conservatives and liberals treat each other. How they categorize one another. I’ve tried to distinguish between the two – since it seems they each have different methods of dehumanizing...
The Singapore Model & DeLong Care
In my post today I write about how Brad DeLong has come up with a totally unrealistic, but pretty good idea on reigning in health costs and covering the uninsured. (He came up with...
not the Europe we had in mind
Matt Yglesias points us to this chart, which is depressing enough on its own: Then, both he and Kevin Drum, go on to point out that job losses are likely going to be long-term....
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