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...
Noahpinion on hiatus until 9/15
Noahpinion is undergoing a temporary hiatus until September 15, while I cram for my prelim tests...Check back after the 15th!
Here comes trouble
In the most recent issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, Azar Gat writes : Today's global liberal democratic order faces two challenges. T...
Europe laps us
While the U.S. flounders in paranoid post-9/11 confusion, Europe is grabbing the talented Indian workers necessary to sustain both its popul...
A step in the right wrong direction
A couple days ago, the Bush Administration announced that, with immigration reform obviously dead, the administration will begin cracking do...
Go teach yerself ta fish
Matt Yglesias speaks a few words in support of rich-country aid to poor countries: Economic growth is a crucial thing, especially for despe...
Go ahead, I triple dog dare you
Today, China's government reacted to the threat of impending U.S. legislation that would punish China for keeping its currency underval...
Depends on what you mean by "working"...
Here's a post by Brad Setser explaining why China's fixed exchange rate policy "isn't working" - as in, the peg isn...
There is such a thing as a stupid question
Goundbreaking new research finds that... people have sex because it's fun ! For this amazing study, a team of researchers compiled a lis...
