Some #realtalk from Thomas Piketty: But Piketty, who penned the blockbuster 2013 book on income inequality Capital in the Twenty-First Century, slammed conservatives who favor the economic austerity measures Germany and France are demanding of Greece, saying they demonstrate a “shocking ignorance” of European history. “Look at the history of national debt: Great Britain, Germany, […]
Month: July 2015
I am presently doing research at the Library of Congress. I just ran across this oddity. Ula Glen of Crestone, Colorado was a ranch wife. Somehow (this is not quite clear to me), she knew Leo Goodman,
When I was in grad school, a very pompous male guest speaker came to my mostly female lab and at one point decided, apropos of absolutely nothing, to launch into a tangent about how women needed to le
It’s not exactly news that Sean Wilentz’s punditry during the 2008 primaries was an embarrassment. But, via Chait, I somehow missed this definitive example: Under those pressures, the Barack Obama campaign and its sympathizers have begun to articulate much more clearly what they mean by their vague slogan of “change” – nothing less than usurping […]
My latest at the National Interest takes a look at a few trends in Chinese military affairs: The People’s Liberation Army and its constituent branches have undergone extraordinary change over the la
Huh. A tweep of mine went on a righteous rant in response to his idiocy. I Storified it. I’ll say here what I said to her: a.) Where do men get these idiotic ideas? b.) Why do they feel safe exp
That I just happened to stumble across somewhere on the Internet.
The Man Who Just Couldn’t Be Right About Anything.
Breaking footage from Vancouver:
In a landslide. I don’t claim expertise, but I’m inclined to defer to this actual expert and see this as the least terrible outcome. As Krugman acknowledges, there’s reason to be concerned about Syriza’s competence (and indeed the heighten-the-contradictions bureaucratic reform proposal is amateur hour.) But nevertheless the troika’s conduct and its offer of austerity […]
Guys, if you’re worried about the huge shiny spot on my forehead, don’t be. As a seasoned multi-tasker I was helping to land planes as I made this video.
In some cases — Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain most obviously in the last cycle — no-hope presidential candidates are essentially running a grift, trying to build their personal brands and