Shorter Louisiana Republicans–“Religious freedom means the freedom to force you to follow my religion.”
Month: July 2012
Another thought on the work and freedom discussion that didn’t really fit into my post last night. The BHL crowd are fans of a policy known as Universal Basic Income (UBI), which they believe wi
If we can’t get Jeffrey Tambor cast as an Aaron Sorkin hero, maybe we can get him to star in a series playing Thad McCotter?
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 readers are attracted to worthless analogies). Also at Marginal Revolution, Alex […]
When I saw the persuasive bad reviews from Emily Nussbaum and Willa Paskin, I knew I was probably going to have to watch The Newsroom so I could judge for myself. And yet, as a longtime Sorikn-on-TV
I’m curious as to what extent the concept of Great Britain triggers nationalistic emotions in the context of sports (or sport). Do English tennis fans root for Scotsman Andy Murray because he
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 go on with this? Either Brooks is stoned to the […]
The core of Mark Tushnet’s three part explanation for John Roberts voting to strike the ACA at oral argument and then voting to uphold it is provocative from a different direction than one might
A digest of This Day in Labor History July 6, 1892–The Homestead Strike July 12, 1917–The Bisbee Deportation July 14, 1877–The Great Railroad Strike September 9, 1739–The Stono
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 of Albertan oil to refineries in the Gulf Coast, generated […]
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
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 1:00. Via Greg Mitchell