Problems ahead for Obama
Wanted: less brown kids
Writing in The Nation , Kathryn Joyce says that conservatives' hysteria over low fertility rates in Europe is primarily due to their de...
Dems, NAFTA, trade, etc.
Someone recently asked me what I thought about the Democrats' " NAFTA spat ." I didn't see the debate in which Obama and C...
Symbolism and reality
Well so much for Obama's biography healing our foreign relations . Guess he'll have to do it with his policies instead. In other new...
Why political movements die
I've long maintained that the liberal movement in America fell victim to a combination of its own wild success (minority rights) and cle...
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, and stupid
One thing that really annoys me is when Republican hacks get to write editorials in the supposedly dispassionate Financial Times . This woul...
Conspiracy Theory List
The Economist has a neat graphic ranking popular conspiracy theories by number of Google searches. I thought I'd go through the big one...
Why "conservative economics" is BS: Reason #857
Paul Krugman points to a study showing the negative effects of poverty on mental development: As the article explained, neuroscientists hav...
General equilibrium
Just a reminder that economics matters, and that there are real people behind the equations: Even when experts were declaring the economy h...
Troops home now
In an email to me about the most recent case of U.S. Marines raping a teenage Japanese girl , Japanese news reporter Renge Jibu notes: On y...
Valentine's Day Post - The Math of Monogamy
I've noticed the Huffington Post has lately been posting a lot of news stories championing the virtues of a polygamous lifestyle ( this...
Apartheid is not multiculturalism
Few in the U.S. may have been paying attention to the " sharia row " in Britain, but it's kind of an interesting story. A few ...
