It's pretty hard to set a new standard for "dumbest argument about climate change," but this may just pull off that difficult feat. Via Henry Farrell. (Who also notes the evolution of the post tags)
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This is, obviously, appalling. See Patrick Nielson Hayden and Ta-Nehisi Coates. It's possible, of course, that some prosecutions of rank-and-file cops for ticket-fixing can be plausibly described as less than.
Matt Yglesias picks up the story about the 'Welcome Dayton' plan that's been circulating since the AP picked up the story. A few comments: 1. The pictured establishment, Taqueria Mixteca,.
I was thinking about putting up a post in response to Kevin Drum's unfortunate defense of aggressive border controls. But I moved slowly, and Matthew Yglesias and Chris Bertram came along and made many of the points I wanted to make. I want to elevate,...
Steven Greenstreet.
I find Matt Yglesias' interpretation of Erik's initial post on education reform exceedingly uncharitable, to say the least. But the crux of the issue seems to be this: Matt is.
Henry Farrell puts out the call for suggestions/donations for the Occupy Wall Street library. I can't argue with his primary suggestion, Hacker and Pierson's Winner-Take-All Politics, which does an excellent job of telling the story of the great divergence. (For good overviews, see Kevin Drum...
In the comments in the technological futurism/higher ed thread below, the "student as consumer model" is being debated. Marc Murc is fine with it: College is fucking expensive, and as.
Peter Frase takes a long look at this “DJW” character, and is deeply dismayed by what he sees. On my claim about our inability to universally and definitely classify jobs:.
An interesting discussion in the comment thread to Erik's post on the welcome decline of robocheckers below. There's been some mild pushback against the notion of resisting robocheckers out of solidarity with the actual paycheck-drawing, rent-paying, family-feeding workers. The pushback is of the sort of...
Via Chris Bertram, this post from David Graeber is one of the best blog posts I've read in quite a while, and invokes a strong desire to read his book..
...is something I've been reading about a bit lately. So while taking nothing away from Yglesias' larger point in this post, the following observation: there was no legal curb on.