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Month: July 2012

Putting cruelty first

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On July 7, 2012
Unsurprisingly, the Bertram/Robin/Gourevich piece on freedom and work I discussed here has produced a good deal of back and forth. First, Tyler Cowen provides us with a horrific example of the economist's tendency to imagine everything can be unproblematically reduced to a price (also, his...

Henry V

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On July 6, 2012
David Brooks imagines Shakespeare's Henry V in an American school circa 2012. Uh..... It's every bit as terrible as you might imagine. So instead of quoting this garbage, let's quote Pierce instead: Look, I like you people. I really do. But do I have to...
Derek H. Burney and Fen Osler Hampson seem to think so: Permitting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline should have been an easy diplomatic and economic decision for U.S. President Barack Obama. The completed project would have shipped more than 700,000 barrels a day...

QOTD

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On July 5, 2012

Scheiber: As Matt Taibbi explains, [the Barclays scandal] is a neutron-bomb of a revelation that’s caused even hardened cynics to rethink their assumptions about the banking system. It’s as though.

Bryan

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On July 5, 2012

Who wants to hear William Jennings Bryan give his Cross of Gold speech? Recorded in 1923. Surely not with the power of 1896, but still. Bryan's voice starts at about.

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