Flathead: I think it was about five months ago that Press editor Alex Zaitchik whispered to me in the office hallway that Thomas Friedman had a new book coming out. All he knew about it was the title, ...

It's time to think about what the proper use and role of a weblog are going to be in the 2020s. Anybody with smart ideas and recommendations, please email me at [email protected] with ...

In the beginning was Karl Marx, with his vision of how the Industrial Revolution would transform everything and be followed by a Great Communist Social Revolution—greater than the political French ...

Now to figure out how much of it is true: China Matters: Herbert Hoover: Made in China: China Matters jumps into the wayback machine, sets the controls for Tianjin 1900—-the Boxer Rebellion--and ...

The amusing thing is that when I first heard of David Graeber's Debt, I thought it might well be a useful corrective to some of the sillinesses of economists, and it went into my "to read" pile with a ...

We are here to say that, as a matter of arithmetic, in a depressed economy like the present, if a long deep recession casts even a small shadow on future potential output, with interest rates in the ...

Rudbekia Hirta has worries about problems that turn her students off math: Learning Curves: Contest Problems: I've also been given a book produced at the University of Delaware in 1986 called ...

Dissent Magazine: Standard-Bearer of the Right: No political movement in America these last twenty-five years has rivaled conservatism in appeal or influence. Everywhere one looks, conservative ...

Paul Krugman has written a very good introduction to Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: In the spring of 2005 a panel of “conservative scholars and policy leaders” was asked to ...

The problem that I have with Paul Krugman's argument here is that the shifts in income inequality seem to me to be too big to be associated with anything the government does or did. Yes, Roosevelt and ...

RadGeek produces what I can only call the intellectual love child of Susan Brownmiller and Friedrich Hayek. Extremely well done: Rad Geek People’s Daily 2008-05-16 – Women and the Invisible Fist: All ...

Cosma Shalizi is driven into shrill unholy madness by Inside Higher Ed the Chronicle of Higher Education: Clothes Make Working for the Man Easier: I have just had one Prof. Erik M. Jensen's op-ed "A ...