Ah, prescience: Summers remained close to Rubin and to Alan Greenspan, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve. When other economists began warning of abuses and systemic risk in the financial system deriving from the environment that Summers, Greenspan, and Rubin had created, Summers mocked...
Month: October 2010
And we have a winner! M. Ricci has won the LGM Baseball Challenge for the second consecutive year. Mr. or Ms. Ricci should contact me regarding prize info (e-mail address.
Longtime readers will recall Ann Althouse constructing a fantasy-world moderate Sam Alito based on one (exceptionally weak) piece of evidence. Streamlining her apologism, she is now making claims about the.
I'm told The Donalde claims I'm "obsessing" over him in a rather nonsensical way—my ardent defense of community college students is actually an attack on community college students somehow—so I want it be known that I'm only "obsessed" with him in the same way I...
While waiting for SEK, once again MZS has a good take on a fantastic episode. Has any show of quality ever reached a new peak in its fourth year? .
In an International Affairs article earlier this year, Mary Martin and Taylor Owen point out that the term is all but dead, both in the UN system and within the.
Dahlia Lithwick and Barry Friedman have a very strong article about the various camouflages used by the Roberts Court. There's nothing new about most of this stuff -- selecting favorable cases, hollowing out precedents that are nominally being reaffirmed, and the like have an extensive...
Though I tend to disagree with his criticism of other science fiction authors, I do love it when Scalzi embraces his titular WHATEVER and goes off on an anti-objectivist rant:.
The Yankee-hater had a real dilemma yesterday -- it's not clear whether their losing the division was actually a good thing or not. Having thought about it, the difference between.
This is genuinely fascinating: When police found a russian-engineered submarine under construction on the outskirts of landlocked Bogota last week, one senior officer swore they had stumbled on "irrefutable proof of the presence of the Russian mafia" in Colombia. Before the 100ft vessel could be...
Apparently, David Brooks' ability to disguise propaganda as literary criticism might exceed his ability to disguise propaganda as restaurant criticism: Whereas Myers only tells one major lie about the book’s.
It's always nice when a pundit has a bold new idea. I expect the Mustache of Understanding party to run competitively in all 50 states in 2012 -- the only.