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• Hmm... very shortly after his brother becomes chief of staff for the new president, Ariel Emanuel shocks Hollywood by ascending to power broker status. Helps to have friends in high places, I guess (NY Times)

• The end of private health insurance (Reason)

• A Socratic dialogue on the welfare state (EconLog)

• Self-recommending: Anne Applebaum on Soviet spies and sympathizers in the U.S. (The New Republic)

• What the pope understands about Judaism that Obama doesn't (Spengler/First Things)

• Social conservatives got screwed by the people who were supposed to be in their pocket. (W. James Antle, III in the Politico)