Subbacultcha
Robert Samuelson reviews Gordon Clark's "A Farewell to Alms," and I guess it's a favorable review, since Samuelson summar...
Always look on the bright side of life
Excerpts from the story of an escapee from a North Korean prison camp : [U]ntil he was 20 years old, North Korean [labor camp inmate] Shin D...
All else being equal
Paul Krugman writes in TPMCafe to explain his new Theory of Everything in American Politics, which I've now seen him put forth in a var...
Hillary Clinton is electable
A new poll finds : [Hillary Clinton] also runs ahead of all Republicans in general-election matchups , with only Giuliani coming close, trai...
Hold me
Here's an incredibly scary article in Newsweek about Pakistan, the most dangerous country in the world. Here's another shorter one ...
Death to Exxon
Private oil is in big trouble , according to a new report by the Council on Foreign Relations. The combination of dwindling discoveries and...
Teacher vs. Sensei
I've read a lot of education policy articles, but this one really stands out . For possibly the first time, I'm reading something ot...
Silliness
Mr. Noah takes on "academic racism"! Dr. James Watson, Nobel prize-winning biologist and discoverer of the shape of DNA, has pisse...
The business community: still smart
Check out this great story about how business groups are abandoning the Republicans and flocking to the Democrats. A couple statistics: All...
Not beyond freedom and dignity
The best column I've read in years was by David Ignatius in today's Washington Post. It's about how America should stop talking...
The real lesson of Iraq
William Saletan has a very interesting column today about the technological lessons of the Iraq war . The upshot is that humans are still be...
Bush gets brains?
Here's a post over at FP Passport about the U.S.'s brand new very effective strategy for countering Hugo Chavez's anti-American...
StrongBad
Rudy Giuliani is rapidly coalescing as the Republican nominee. Anything can change, of course, but Romney is Mormon, McCain has alienated to...
Please aim gun away from foot
With the Nobel prizes about to be announced this week, it's worth noting that America's dominance of the prizes is unprecedented i...
An insight into human nature
For those with strong stomachs, an account of the continuing war in Congo .
Hey rich folks, want a cookie?
Matt Yglesias gives details of Romney's economic policy proposals ...basically a ton of tax cuts for the rich. Hmm, maybe Romney read th...
Obama and the flag
I like Barack Obama, I like what he stands for, and I still plan on voting for him in the primaries. But today (or yesterday) will go down i...
Game theory, James Dobson style
Today, in a NYT editorial , James Dobson called for "values voters" to vote for a minor-party candidate if the GOP nominates a pro...
Red and Blue
Hillary Clinton IS electable.
A writeup in today's WaPo shows that H. Clinton is not quite so divisive and polarizing a figure as some think. Some excerpts: Forty-o...
