Some Truths More Inconvenient than Others?
Here is Paul Krugman this past weekend: In a rational world, then, the looming climate disaster would be our dominant political and policy concern. But it manifestly isn’t. Why not? Part of the answer...
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Were Our Enemies Right?
In February 1982, Susan Sontag made a fierce challenge to a left-wing audience gathered at New York’s Town Hall: Imagine, if you will, someone who read only the Reader’s Digest between 1950 and 1970,...
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If Conservatives Were Right About the Economy
Further to yesterday’s post about the respective economic acumen of the Wall Street Journal editorial page vs. Prof. Paul Krugman: My conservative friends argue that the policies of Barack Obama are...
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Yes, Earthquakes Can Jolt Recovery
On August 23rd, a fake Paul Krugman account on Google+ joked that the East Coast Earthquake could have been a stimulus if it had done more damage: People on twitter might be joking, but in all...
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Only One Can Rule the Galaxy
While reading Maureen Dowd’s New York Times column about Newt Gingrich, we learn that the former Speaker of the House is a big fan of the science fiction novels of Isaac Asimov, and not in a good way:...
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