Ezra Klein

I really try not to quote this much, but Publius wrote one of those posts where I wanted to excerpt the first graf, then couldn’t leave out the next, and wouldn’t think of depriving you of the third, and so on, and now there are five: Generally speaking, I think people (like me) who came […]

Only a couple decades too late, Britain’s The Socialist Worker has an article explaining why the Soviet Union model isn’t a good alternative to capitalism. Ya think?

Jonah Goldberg writes: It was amazing how much of the rhetoric from the recent Daily Kos convention in Las Vegas was about standing up, fighting back and feeling proud to be Democrats. I’m pretty close to positive that Goldberg wasn’t at YearlyKos, so how would he know?

To get an idea of what I mean, check out this speech she delivered on health care. As cogent, clear, and informed on the subject as any wonk or activist could hope, but she never takes the step into solutions or controversy. She sees the problems, but won’t confront the troublemakers. How can we trust […]

I’m not one to speak ill of the dead, but does Kenneth Lay really deserve comparisons to Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus Christ? Surely just Gandhi and the Buddha would’ve sufficed?

Michael Cannon writes: The American Medical Association was among the top five organizational spenders ($9,720,000 spent in the last half of 2005) in part because they successfully lobbied to block Medicare payment cuts, which had already been enacted into law and were scheduled to take effect this year. That would be the third or fourth […]

Michael Cannon writes: The American Medical Association was among the top five organizational spenders ($9,720,000 spent in the last half of 2005) in part because they successfully lobbied to block Medicare payment cuts, which had already been enacted into law and were scheduled to take effect this year. That would be the third or fourth […]

There is literally no way this was actually written by a sixth grader. The prose is far too clean, and the political slogans too well absorbed.

No reason not to quote this in full. Here’s The Wall Street Journal — no liberal paper they — on whether the Bush tax cuts paid for themselves: “While difficult to estimate precisely,” Treasury long-run analyses of the effects of President Bush’s tax cuts “may ultimately” raise total national output of goods and services by […]

“Teledildonics.”