How dare you threaten our right to refuse you medical care!

Posted by | 9:52 AM
Check out the new anti-gay video from the "National Organization for Marriage". Apparently, health care workers who believe homos...

Fruitful

Posted by | 5:29 PM
Via Ezra Klein , Michelle Goldberg thinks there's nothing contradictory between liberalism and wanting higher fertility rates. Some lib...

Lies, damned lies, and defense spending bar graphs

Posted by | 9:11 AM
Let me wade back into the debate here a bit. My general argument is that the U.S. needs high-tech gizmos to deter China. Those who pooh-poo...

Bob Gates responds to Noah

Posted by | 12:51 PM
Or something (emphasis mine): "Some will say I am too focused on the wars we are in and not enough on future threats," Gates said...

Noah opens his big mouth about defense issues

Posted by | 7:17 AM
As the self-deprecating title of this post makes abundantly clear, I am no expert on defense issues. But it seems to me that this article i...

That is not dead which can eternal lie

Posted by | 9:50 AM
Like Great Cthulhu , dreaming under the oceans in the dead city of R'lyeh, the Chicago School macroeconomists were just waiting for the ...

Bad is not good

Posted by | 8:55 PM
Via Ry, here's an interesting article about the decline of Christianity in America . More and more Americans, especially in liberal area...

Dismantle your civilization or we will continue to party and hit on each other!

Posted by | 2:42 PM
Josh Keating of FP Passport has a theory about why modern large-scale protests - the anti-globalization protests, the anti-Iraq War protest...

Inequality in America

Posted by | 10:28 AM
The Economist has a new story out about inequality that basically reinforces the "two inequalities" story that we've been hea...

The failure of human ingenuity

Posted by | 8:43 AM
I've been reading a lot of old science fiction, and I keep thinking "Back in the 50s they thought we'd have flying cars and big...

What happens when you don't nationalize teh banks

Posted by | 6:53 PM
You get sodomized by the rusty semi-corroded iron poker of long-term economic stagnation .

Retiree ratio followup

Posted by | 9:32 AM
More Yglesias fixation... Today he takes on the idea (also put forward by me ) that high birthrates are needed to support retirees. First, ...