Ronald Dworkin is very convincing in his response to Marcia Angell's left-critique of the PPACA. The most obvious problem with Angell's argument is the "compared to what?" question. Her implicit point of comparison is with a single-payer system, and she (correctly) finds that the PPACA...
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Justifying my optimism in a little more detail.
One of the more arcane pleasures afforded by baseball.reference.com is the chance to browse through a season's worth of 90-year-old box scores. Apparently in that simpler more innocent time the.
Of potential interest to any readers with an interest in political theory or intellectual history: The Association for Political Theory has created a blog for the purposes of a virtual reading group on Samuel Moyn's 2010 book, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History. My...
Who else was clamoring for a painting of Andrew Breitbart as a Nordic knight? Yours for as little as $49.95!!
At the end of an excellent post about the missed opportunities on the economy that seem more likely than not at this point to cost Obama re-election, Noam Scheiber argues.
The first recording of Doc Watson, back in 1941 at a fiddlers' festival in North Carolina.
Generally, one can assume that a given Amity Shlaes op-ed will merit the title as the worst op-ed ever written until Shlaes writes another one. So I'm not sure that.
Yes, Mayor Rich's big soda ban is really dumb. Informing consumers about the content of products is a good thing, and I was willing to make an exception for the.
Historic! Glad to see it was Santana; his start on 3 days rest on the second-last day of the 2008 season was one of the most exciting games I've ever seen; I'll never forget him heaving the ball into the stands. And glad to see...
Most of what I read about the latest Mad Men ("The Other Woman") focused on Joan's decision to accept Pete's indecent proposal—and rightly so—but the title of the episode basically demands the.
Fallows with the key takeaway from the data presented by John Sides: At no time in the past year has coverage of President Obama been as positive as that of.