Joseph Lawler

Bill Simmons claimed that Updike’s “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu,” recounting Ted Williams’s final game, was the best sports essay…

It looks like Planned Parenthood is just going to have to figure out its own way through the recession, as…

Catholic schools need an Obama shout-out (WSJ) What Milton Friedman’s grandson is up to: seasteading (Wired) Bush left one big…

Meanwhile, Pakistan undergoes Talibanization, with women catching the worst of it (Washington Post) Unsolvable problems for the US and Moscow…

We think that the rest of the world will finance our consumption forever, but we’re dumb (WSJ) Anti-stimulus economists abound,…

The Keynesian “multiplier” might be more like a “dampener” (WSJ) And also “stimulus” doesn’t “stimulate” (NY Times) Not all bad…

One postpartisan dream: a solvent U.S. (WSJ) The death of the newspapers has taken over 200 years already (New Yorker)…

More health care caring (WSJ) The outlook is bleak: Bill Nye is one of our most respected scientists (SciGuy) (via…

India and Israel, brought together by common enemies (Bloomberg) Washington getting rich is not a good sign for the rest…

To the Keynesians: let’s hope for better luck this time (WSJ) Brooks on Neuhaus (NY Times) 25 Top Bushisms, 1999-2008…