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This week’s articles of note
“Unions vs. Democratic mayors,” Reason, by Tim Cavanaugh “Waiting for the GOP’s populist turn,” Defining Ideas, by Victor Davis Hanson “Another kick in the teeth for Malthus,” The American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead “College of future could be come one, come all,” The New York Times, by Tamar Lewin “Is it acceptable to have […]
This week’s articles of note
“For a preview of Obama’s America in 2016, look at the crack-up of California,” New Geography, by Joel Kotkin “The you’re-on-your-own society,” The Nation, by Katha Pollitt “It’s the welfare state, stupid,” Washington Post, by Robert Samuelson “The United States, future energy superpower,” Kansas City Star, by E. Thomas McClanahan “How free speech died on […]
This week’s articles of note: post-election edition
“Welcome to liberal America,” Buzzfeed, by Ben Smith and Zeke Miller “The case of the missing white voters,” Real Clear Politics, by Sean Trende “The long game,” City Journal, by Andrew Klavans “California just became a one-party state,” Reuters, by Peter Henderson, Jim Christie and Mary Slosson “The edge of the abyss,” National Review, by […]
This week’s articles of note
“It’s global warming, stupid,” Bloomberg Businesweek, by Paul M. Barrett “Of Sandy, ducks, and climate change,” National Review, by Charles C.W. Cooke “Still waiting for the Narrator in Chief,” New York Times Magazine, by Matt Bai “Clarity needed on Benghazi,” Washington Post, by David Ignatius “New details on Benghazi,” The Daily Beast, by Eli Lake […]
This week’s articles of note
“Struggling to advance,” National Journal, by Ron Brownstein “Why big money can’t buy an election after all,” The Fiscal Times, by Bruce Bartlett “Why I refuse to vote for Barack Obama,” The Atlantic, by Conor Friedersdorf “The myth of male decline,” The New York Times, by Stephanie Coontz “Stealth war to redefine science,” USA Today, […]
This week’s articles of note
“Obama’s shaky Libya narrative,” The Daily Beast, by Eli Lake “America’s last politically contested territory: the suburbs,” The Daily Beast, by Joel Kotkin “The next panic: Europe’s crisis will be followed by a more devastating one, likely beginning in Japan,” The Atlantic, by Peter Boone and Simon Johnson “How the Justice Department transformed an Amish […]
This week’s articles of note
“The day the roof fell in,” The American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead “The deafness before the storm,” The New York Times, by Kurt Eichenwald [Alleges George W. Bush ignored pre-9/11 warnings] “The disappeared: how the fatwa changed a writer’s life,” The New Yorker, by Salman Rushdie “Obama’s way,” Vanity Fair, by Michael Lewis “Fiddling at […]
This week’s articles of note
“Barack Obama’s new Chicago politics abandon Bill Clinton’s winning coalition,” The Daily Beast, by Joel Kotkin “Inside story of Obama’s struggle to keep Congress from controlling outcome of debt ceiling crisis,” Washington Post, by Bob Woodward [Excerpt from Woodward’s new book, The Price of Politics] “Let’s be friends: two presidents find mutual advantage,” The New […]
This week’s articles of note
“The unseen class war that could decide the election,” New Geography, by Joel Kotkin “When business and government are bedfellows,” The Economist [Interview with Luigi Zingales on crony capitalism] “Greed and debt: the true story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital,” Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi “Apocalypse not: here’s why you shouldn’t worry about end […]
This week’s articles of note
“Roberts switched vote to uphold health care law,” CBS News, by Jan Crawford “Where the money lives,” Vanity Fair, by Nicholas Shaxson [On Mitt Romney’s personal finances] “The LIBOR scandal: the rotten heart of finance,” The Economist “Native tongues,” Lapham’s Quarterly, by Simon Winchester [On the making of an American regional English dictionary] “The violent […]