
Joseph Lawler
In a ThinkMarkets post yesterday, NYU’s Mario Rizzo blew up the Obama administration’s arguments that the stimulus is lifting, not…
In Jericho, Arkansas, a police officer has apparently taken a scrimmage between cops and fireman to the max: first the…
I would be interested in reading Jim Antle’s thoughts on this CQ article on the possibility of a Republican successor…
If there were one thing that a stimulus package could do effectively, it would be preventing layoffs by state governments….
That’s the title of Paul Krugman’s long essay on the recession’s impact on academic economics in the New York Times…
A few good reads on health care matters this morning. In National Review, Cato’s Michael Cannon exposes some of the…
Earlier this month I noted Jerry Coyne’s New Republic review of Robert Wright’s book The Evolution of God, mentioning at…
It’s all in this New Republic article. The article itself is interesting and though-provoking; Brooks’s insights are not. It takes…
The Federal Reserve’s purpose, beyond monitoring the money supply, is to ensure the safety and stability of the financial system…
Sunday’s Boston Globe had an interesting profile of Boston mayor Thomas Menino and his governing strategy. This strategy could be…