Apparently, Ferguson has been making these “off the cuff” remarks about Keynes for more than a decade. However, Jonah Goldberg notes that once an argument has been made by a conservative it can therefore never be criticized when it’s later made by another conservative. [Via Edroso.] So apparently we’re not allowed to consider defenses of […]
Month: May 2013
Storify by Scott Eric Kaufman Sat, May 04 2013 13:31:51 I feel like a bad person. Not that I am one. Except when I’m mean. That dog’s excited his new book came out. So are some of his frie
My son is subsisting on an almost entirely meatball-centered diet. It’s one of the few adult foods I can get him to eat. So I am always looking for new ways to make meatballs. This evening I hav
Historian Jefferson Cowie tells the following story in his outstanding book on the decline of labor and the transformation of the white working class, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. In 1979, a reporter asked International Association of Machinists president Wimpy Winpisinger a question about Jimmy Carter. Winpisinger was […]
Expressing a desire to have a conversation about subject “X” probably seems eminently reasonable to most people. Conversing, discussing, debating– it’s how we challenge our own
George Jones was laid to rest yesterday. In his honor, one more great song by the Possum.
Niall Ferguson. …as Jeet Heer notes, “What does it say if your best argument against Keynesian economics is homophobia?” And Keynes’s wife had a miscarriage! Although, in fairness, Keynes was so effette and unmanly he wasn’t willing to walk out on his wife and three kids, which really proves you care about future generations. …The […]
Well I’ll be! I always thought Ben Shapiro’s name was “Ben Shapiro.” I know it used to be. Breitbart says I need an update: I wonder what his Jew priest will say when he learns
Shorter* Andrea Tantaros: The Obama administration eliminated arbitrary obstacles for women 15 or over who want to obtain emergency contraception because he HATES FREEDOM. The federal government shoul
Hogan, on Alito’s work from earlier this week: It’s like Kafka and Heller had a baby, sent it off to be raised by rabid hyenas, and it grew up to become a Supreme Court justice. See also Alito’s criminal procedure jurisprudence, passim.
Perhaps the most compelling story in Karen Houppert’s superb Chasing Gideon is Greg Bright’s. Bright spend nearly 30 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, based on evide
When we think of labor, we probably don’t really think of the Sherpas, who guide climbers up Mt. Everest and other high Himalayan peaks. But in fact, the climbers often treat the Sherpas like be