How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
In the Financial Times , economist Ricardo Hausmann tells the U.S. to stop whining and take its recession like a man: The goal [of U.S. poli...
Large, anxious voters
Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, writes in the Financial Times : The problem [with the American economy] lies deeper than the ...
Where I steal all my ideas
In an article in The Economist: [T]he world seems to be in rather better shape than most people realise... In the world as a whole, a stunn...
Let your people go
Matt Yglesias usually does an excellent job of pointing out the shortcomings of conventional approaches to foreign policy...but a somewhat l...
American decline
Here is a completely retarded essay about America's relative decline in the world. A quote: As the early 20th-century European scholars...
Who's afraid of the Big Bad Muslim?
I'm three weeks late in noticing and responding to this essay by Fouad Ajami , but hey - as soon as someone starts paying me to blog, I&...
Revenge of the Nerds, Part 2
Tyler Cowen writes : [I]n the real world, romantic competition has radically changed. Millions of Women Are Waiting to Meet You is the apt t...
Electability Post #1,000,000,000
Kevin Drum looks at some numbers from a very thorough LA Times poll , and finds that Clinton "does at least as well as Obama against ev...
Something about history and victory
A commenter writes : The more I watch and listen to Hillary Clinton, the less I like her. She impresses me as the same sort of two-faced poo...
Best Electability Post Ever
Every time people (especially liberals) tell me that Hillary is "polarizing" and unelectable, I want to show them a really good bl...
Krugman's strategery
Yglesias tracks Krugman's latest efforts to discredit Barack Obama. In fact, lately Krugman has been on Obama's case with an inte...
But I liked the 80s!
Paul Krugman doesn't like Obama saying that Reagan created a "sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship." Reagan, Krugman claims...
Let me make it plain
Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers at Cato Unbound note that the economic basis of marriage is changing . No longer is it economical to hav...
The Superpower Cometh
Among the scariest articles I've read all year is this piece by Ian Buruma . It manages to succinctly sum up many of the fears and misgi...
Stop worrying and love the reactor
At the risk of having this become the Matt Yglesias Shadow Blog (yeah, like it hasn't happened already), here's an Yglesias post wit...
A proposed alternative to nuclear nonproliferation
Sex and Death
Buh-bye conservatism
Jonah Goldberg manages to write a column without any liberal-baiting in it , and - surprise! - the man actually seems to sort of know what h...
The Pill vs. Devils on Horseback
Revenge of the nerds
Barack from vacation!
I'm back, but posting is still going to be fairly light here, at least for the next 6 weeks, which are shaping up to be the busiest of m...
Out til the 6th
Oh, hey, forgot to say that I'm on vacation and will be out until the 6th. Happy New Year's! A couple random good articles to read: ...
