Niall Ferguson, Wanker

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In imperial punditry , Iraq war
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On May 25, 2007
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Fergie, 9 February 2005That is why the president is more right than he knows to reject calls for an arbitrary departure date. The price of liberty in Iraq will be, if not eternal vigilance on the part of the United States, then certainly 10 years' vigilance.Fergie,...

Degrading

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In bad metrics , education
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On May 24, 2007
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Via Kay Steiger, an excellent COHE article about U.S. News and World Report's ludicrously arbitrary university ranking system. The rankings, created with formulae that have little internal logic, are worse than useless. First, because the apparent certainty of quantification gives them an authority they don't remotely...

Sicker and Shorter

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In General
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On May 23, 2007
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Jonathan Gitlin has a post up on the sad state of healthcare in America. Not only do we predictably fall behind other industrialized countries in every conceivable category, but our lack of preventative healthcare for children, along with inadequate nutrition, has lead to the stunting of...
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