Mr. Trend has a thoughtful post about why he studies military dictatorships in Latin America: But studying dictatorships has a particular oppression looming over it. Environmental destruction, strike-breaking, and war all have really ugly components. Yet, at least to my way of thinking (and I think a lot of people’s more generally), dealing with issues […]
Month: March 2009
Jack Balkin dismisses the constitutional arguments. Really, although there are serious objections to the bill on policy issues, until (God forbid) Richard Epstein becomes the median vote on the Suprem
Ew. His moral and journalistic standards rank roughly with his erotic prose.
Thank God I read Lord of the Rings… There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with […]
The idea that Raul Castro may have moved against Venezuelan proxies in Cuba is fascinating, but there doesn’t seem to be much to it. That is, I have no doubt that the removal of Deputy Prime Min
I will say that where I am in agreement with the optimists is on DeLong’s point 2 here — the politics. I don’t think a quickly exhaustible store of “political capital” is
There are currently 10 living Secretaries of State of the United States, active or retired. Unless I’m terribly wrong, this is a new recordties the old record, set between 1993 and 1994. Now you know.
Earlier today, Brad Delong observed: At the moment “Fear of Reese Witherspoon Look-Alikes on the Pill” has 116 comments, while “The Geithner Plan FAQ” has only 89 comments. I c
From DeLong. Krugman, conversely, remains skeptical. Critics were right to note below that the epistemic uncertainty here demands more modesty than I showed; this crisis has so few even close preceden
It doesn’t quite pack the immediate punch of the “morans” sign, but this — from one of those planet-quaking tea parties — is also made of awesome. No word on whether the sign-holder was named Alan Greenspan.
I realize it would be unreasonable to expect a Protein Wisdom contributor to appreciate the subtlety of what I’m about to say here, but comparing the taxation of publicly-funded corporate bonuse
Some of the nation’s foremost constitutional scholars have apparently decided to weigh in on the tax plan passed in the House: O’DONNELL (3/19/09): You know, this is, this was a brilliant trap