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We don't do nation-building
As I read this article about American's declining reading habits , I had a thought. The article points out that: Sixty-one percent of t...
Who coddles dictators?
Posted by Unknown | 1:17 PM
After reading an article on China's support for Iran , I tried to think of all the dictatorships whose regimes enjoy significant politic...
Will abstain for $$$
Posted by Unknown | 12:54 PM
An interesting survey finds that most NYU students would give up their right to vote for one year for a year's worth of free tuition. A...
Diamonds or Pearls
Posted by Unknown | 12:52 PM
As it's actually getting somewhat close to the primary season, and since I now actually own a TV, I've started watching the Democrat...
Slavery vs. Santa Claus
Posted by Unknown | 1:38 PM
A pretty textbook Econ 101 defense of free trade appears in this week's Foreign Policy magazine (usually a forum for more original, subt...
One can't live as cheap as two
Posted by Unknown | 9:57 AM
A new report reveals that about half of black people born to middle-class families in 1960 grew up to be poor, despite the fact that averag...
Economic thought of the day
Posted by Unknown | 7:48 AM
This is in response to an article my sister emailed me about the economic side of the immigration debate. The article is more than a year o...
The strong horse
Posted by Unknown | 8:53 AM
Why haven't we condemned Pervez Musharraf's brutal destruction of Pakistani democracy and civil society? Conventional wisdom is th...
Do unto others
Posted by Unknown | 6:11 PM
Interesting article about waterboarding in the WaPo today. Did you know that we convicted Japanese war criminals after WW2 for waterboardin...
Article of the day
Posted by Unknown | 9:11 AM
Sigh. It occurs to me that the current political struggle is less of a fight over policy than a clash between two very different visions of ...
Hillary Clinton is electable, Part 3
Posted by Unknown | 10:39 AM
From MSNBC.com : More than half of white evangelical Republicans would consider voting for a conservative third-party candidate should the 2...
