This week’s articles of note
“The consequentialist: how the Arab spring remade Obama’s foreign policy,” The New Yorker, by Ryan Lizza
“Obama’s 2012 paradox,” National Journal, by Ron Brownstein
“What’s wrong with America’s economy?” The Economist
“What’s left of the left: Paul Krugman’s lonely crusade,” New York, by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
“Milwaukee’s best no longer,” ...
The Birthers
I was in a diner in Scranton, Pennsylvania last night, when an older man in the booth two down from ours was speaking somewhat loudly to a woman who I guessed was his daughter. “I’ve decided to challenge his citizenship,” he said, with “his” referring to President Obama’s. “But I know it comes ...
On vacation this week
Will return April 25th.
This week’s articles of note
“False pretense for war in Libya?” The Boston Globe, by Alan J. Kuperman
“This tech bubble is different,” Bloomberg Businessweek, by Ashlee Vance
“The management myth,” The Atlantic, by Matthew Stewart
“In praise of Marx,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Terry Eagleton
“Twin lessons: Have more kids. Pay ...
Distracted driving: another attempt to use kids to police adults
Jane Brody in the New York Times writes about ”distracted driving” – that is, undertaking activities in the car such as re-programming your GPS, searching for a particular CD, putting on make-up or shaving, and so on.
The article ...
US budget showdown: the politics of pantomime
For all the attempts to talk up the budget clash as a great historical drama, in truth it revealed the pathetic state of American politics.
Read my spiked article in full here.
This week’s articles of note
“Good, bad or none of our business,” The Australian, by Frank Furedi
“Beyond the welfare state,” National Affairs, by Yuval Levin
“Reclaiming the politics of freedom,” The Nation, by Corey Robin
“Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%,” Vanity Fair, by Joseph E. Stiglitz
“‘The birth of ...
A wage-less recovery
Workers’ wages are stagnating in the US, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Average hourly earnings showed no growth in March for the fourth time in five months. David Rosenberg, chief economist at Gluskin Sheff, says ...
The problem with “immaculate intervention”
George Friedman, chief executive of STRATFOR, the geopolitical intelligence company, highlights the illogic of humanitarian wars in an article for Real Clear World.
Friedman notes how defenders of humanitarian wars claim to be neutral, but they are not:
The doctrine [of humanitarian war] becomes less coherent in a civil war in which one ...
This week’s articles of note
“U.S. military not happy over Libya,” The Daily Beast, by Leslie H. Gelb
“On Libya’s revolutionary road,” The New York Times Magazine, by Robert F. Worth
“What is Samantha Power thinking?” National Review, by Matthew Shaffer
“More profits, fewer jobs,” Slate, by Annie Lowrey
“Moving while black,” The New ...
