Yglesias has been reading Middlekauf and tries to learn lessons on modern health care from the disastrous medicine of the time: I think discussions of health care economics pay far too little attention to the question of pre-modern health care. People have been earning a living as medical professionals for a long time. And yet […]
Month: June 2011
There are obviously a ton of problems with this heuristic, but I think the fact that it’s a “daughter” test and not even a “child” test tells you everything you need to k
Hertzberg does a great job of explaining why trying to pretend that scandals involving consensual sex are actually relevant won’t fly: By itself, the fact that a person has lied about sex tells
Bobo engages in his trademark style of argument, focusing on abstractions and ignoring evidence about whether or not markets actually work for a given problem. Cohn does a good job pointing out the problems, and I think the most important one is near the end — the comparison with other countries. Brooks asserts that “there […]
It’s a point that’s been made before, but hasn’t been made enough: Stop calling [Paul] Ryan a “deficit hawk.” He voted for all of Bush’s tax cuts. He voted for all
For people who need additional reasons to loathe Michael Bay and Shia LeBeouf: Given that Michael Bay auditioned Megan Fox for the Transformers franchise by making her wash his Ferrari, it’s not pa
Andrew Klavan. Or maybe Chris Mathews. I have no idea what’s wrong with these people.
A couple of notes as we go forward in this series: 1. I am doing the states in order of joining the union. 2. Some of you are bringing up state-level politicians. That was really interesting to me. I
Given that our only apparent alternatives are to consider Anthony Weiner’s dick or Sarah Palin’s application of the Barnum Effect to the history of American Revolution, allow me to remind
I’m so old I remember when Mitch Daniels was the moderate, thinking-woman’s Republican who was going to end the culture wars. This case also presents us with the classic “I’ll take your money, but I won’t plow your driveway” theory of “states’ rights”: The law, which, among other things, bars Planned Parenthood from receiving any […]
Last year, the Third Circuit held that a local anti-illegal immigration notice in Hazelton, Pennsylvania was unconstitutional. Today, that decision was vacated by the Supreme Court and remanded “
But half my department does. Nevertheless, even I can work out that this probably doesn’t help.