(Posted by John.) via Susie Madrak, this could be seen as a refutation of my previous post, namely that the US leadership doesn’t pay a political price for war: MACKINAC ISLAND – The war in Iraq has become so unpopular that it could cost Republicans control of Congress, statehouses and governor races around the country, […]
Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.
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If Ramesh Wants a Passing Grade, He’ll Have To Rewrite His Response Paper
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Here’s my old teacher Peter Berkowitz, in his review of Ramesh Ponnuru’s Party of Death: Invisible to the naked eye, lacking body or brain, feeling neither pleasure nor pain, radically dependent for life support, the early embryo, though surely part of the human family, is distant and different enough from […]
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The Jevon’s Paradox of War
(Posted by John.) I’d like to pick up Ezra’s “war is hell” message from a few days ago and run with it a bit, if I may… In sustainability circles, there’s a phrase known as Jevon’s Paradox. Roughly stated, Jevon’s says that as the efficiency of use of a particular resource goes up, consumption also […]
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Should I Heart Charles Murray?
I’m deeply puzzled by Harry Brighouse’s laudatory review of Charles Murray’s income transfer scheme from In Our Hands. I’ve written on the book before, both in a review (of sorts) for The New Republic and on this blog. Suffice to say: we are not amused. The problem with Murray’s scheme — he liquidates the welfare […]
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IT SHOULDN’T BE…
IT SHOULDN’T BE A CHOICE. Far be it for me to disagree with Enlightened Being and Creator of Fire Mike Tomasky, but his post on the Department of Homeland Security’s funding allocations seems a bit wrongheaded. His point is that the cuts in cash for New York and Washington may well make sense — who […]
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TAXES ARE HARD….
TAXES ARE HARD. Some attention has already been paid to this hackish op-ed expounding on the conservative virtues of the Alternative Minimum Tax. It is, the author writes, the quickest way of taking the country to a flat tax, which should be the preferred conservative solution. How weird then that conservatives are all clamoring for […]
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Medicaid Is Welfare
A look behind the curtain (Via Michael Cannon): Too many conservative advocates of Medicaid reform couch their advocacy in terms such as “enrolling in private health plans will remove the stigma from patients on Medicaid” and “choice is better than cutting Medicaid reimbursements to providers, which limit recipients’ access to the best doctors.” These may […]
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What’s Wrong With a Bit of Spending Between Friends?
Michael Tanner writes: There is no doubt that Americans spend more on health care than any other country. But why is that necessarily a bad thing? There is no “right” amount to spend on health care or anything else. The United States spends more on athletic shoes than any other country. No one speaks of […]