Ezra Klein

by Stephen of the Thinkery Okay, this is really something. Mia Farrow wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal about the situation in Darfur. In it she publicly called for Stephen Spielberg to take action about the genocide happening there. What could Spielberg have to do with it? Quite a bit, it seems, since […]

By Ezra From a bit later in his op-ed: This issue is particularly important now because massive, unfunded entitlements are coming due as the baby-boom generation retires. We simply cannot afford higher taxes if we want an economy able to bear up under the strain of those obligations. What the hell sense does that make? […]

By Ezra If you’ve any doubt of the type of campaign Fred Thompson wants to run, open the Wall Street Journal this morning and read the Law & Order actor’s op-ed “Case Closed: Tax cuts mean growth.” Despite the atmospherics, he’s not pretending to be an economist here (and a good thing, too). He’s pretending […]

by Stephen of the Thinkery Kathleen Sebelius, the Governor of Kansas, vetoed a bill on Friday that was yet another attempt by the State Legislature to interfere with the ability of the state’s cities and counties to govern themselves. This time, legislators want to dictate to cities and counties where they can and cannot ban […]

(Posted by John.) I only have time for a brief post this weekend, so I’ll direct your attention to this post at Green Car Congress: Pacific Gas & Electric has demonstrated a working vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capable hybrid car: a car whose batteries can be hooked up to the electrical grid and used to both charge […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf The best post I read on the Don Imus situation was by Pam Spaulding. It dealt with the subject of nappy hair and how to straighten it: I am old enough to experience the “pleasure” of the thermal hot comb — you rested it over the gas flame of the […]

Klein v. Sanchez.

I’ve not been following David Plotz’s Bible blogging, but he’s gotten all the way up to Job, and Job is the sort of literature that it’s almost impossible to write anything boring about. What do you with a book in which God comes across as arrogant, boastful, capricious, cruel, petty, self-contradictory, and possibly even polytheistic?

I should be more careful about uncritically citing Cato’s interpretation of studies. And they’re right, I probably should be.