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Self-guarding guardians

Posted by Unknown | 6:51 PM
Plato (inventor of the plate!) suggested that society's safety and virtue be preserved by a class of powerful "guardians," enl...
Why we run deficits

Posted by Unknown | 1:13 PM
Writing in Mother Jones, Kevin Drum notes that liberals have been far more willing to cut the deficit than conservatives over the past 30 y...
The red badge of bad economics

Posted by Unknown | 1:21 PM
Though Brad DeLong is, far and away, my favorite econ blogger out there today, there are times when I disagree with him. In an article in Fo...
Thoughts on the rise of Asia

Posted by Unknown | 7:31 PM
David Pilling has a long, rambling, but good column in the Financial Times about the rise of Asia. It's all over the place, but basica...
One way or another, Medicare is going to go

Posted by Unknown | 9:24 AM
It is becoming more and more apparent that the U.S. government has two choices: A) drastic cuts in health care expenditure, or B) a soverei...
On "libertarians"

Posted by Unknown | 7:33 AM
Regarding my last post , an anonymous commenter asks: Why do you insist that Angus is a conservative? Are you unable to make a distinction b...
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What gets conservatives' goat

Posted by Unknown | 11:36 AM
Over at Kids Prefer Cheese, blogger Angus (after merciless heckling from Yours Truly in the comments section) relents and gives me his reaso...
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Conservatism
Don't count Japan out yet

Posted by Unknown | 3:38 PM
It is fashionable these days to speak of Japan as the "sick man of Asia," a country in severe and possibly irreversible economic a...
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Japan
La la la, I can't hear myself

Posted by Unknown | 6:31 AM
"Angus" at the blog Kids Prefer Cheese gives us a post called " one reality, many interpretations ?": The progressiv...
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Conservatism