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This week’s articles of note
“The Obama memos,” The New Yorker, by Ryan Lizza “Making it in America,” The Atlantic, by Adam Davidson “Mega-man: the fast, fabulous, fraudulent life of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom,” Ars Technica, by Sean Gallagher “How much is an astronaut’s life worth?” Reason, by Adam Zubrin “Do the classics have a future?” The New York Review of […]
Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for 2012!
Hope you enjoy the holiday season, and see you in the new year!
2011’s best articles
Here are my top 10 articles for the year (in alphabetical order by the author’s last name): “Politics’ fatal therapeutic turn,” Dissent, by Zelda Bronstein “Condemned to joy: the Western cult of happiness is a mirthless enterprise,” City Journal, by Pascal Bruckner “Health now: a provocation,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Mark Edmundson “The rise […]
This week’s articles of note
“The path to 270: demographics versus economics in 2012 presidential election,” Center for American Progress, by Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin (pdf) “How the Euro crisis could destroy the US economy,” The Atlantic, by Jim Tankersley “Secret Fed loans helped banks net $13B,” Bloomberg Markets Magazine, by Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz “2012 […]
This week’s articles of note
“Pre-occupied: the origins and future of Occupy Wall Street,” The New Yorker, by Mattathias Schwartz “Pepper-spraying taxpayers: ‘diversity’ boondoggles are the real scandal,” National Review Online, by Heather MacDonald “How I stopped worrying and learned to love the OWS protests,” Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi “‘The new Tammany Hall,'” Wall Street Journal, by Matthew Kaminski […]
This week’s articles of note
“The Great Restoration,” New York Times, by David Brooks “Claire Fox on freedom of speech,” FiveBooks Interviews “The myths of Christian Europe,” Pandaemonium, by Kenan Malik “Natural gas will repower America,” RealClearEnergy, by Rich Trzupek “The end of the future,” National Review, by Peter Thiel
This week’s articles of note
“Half baked: UC Berkeley’s diversity machine loses its mind over cupcakes,” City Journal, by Heather Macdonald “Former Obama budget chief: Forget democracy. How about rule by technocrats and independent commissions?” Reason, by Peter Suderman “Panic?” The American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead [On the world economic crisis] “Back to Mesopotamia? The looming threat of debt […]
This week’s articles of note
“The responsibility of intellectuals, redux,” The Boston Review, by Noam Chomsky “The Fed’s dual mandate responsibilities and challenges of monetary policy,” Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, by Charles Evans “Obama’s economic trifecta: how the President helped kill progressivism, capitalism and moderation,” Forbes, by Joel Kotkin “Special report: the future of jobs,” The Economist “Gore’s dire […]
This week’s articles of note
“Day’s end: The 9/11 decade is over. The terrorists lost. But who won?” New York, by Frank Rich “Amid the memorials, ambiguity and ambivalence,” The New York Times, by Edward Rothstein [on 9/11 commemorations] “Capitalism – what comes next?” Thought Economics [Edmund Phelps interviewed by Vikas Shah] “Struggling with a great contraction,” The Financial Times, […]