Over at Tiny Revolution, Jon Schwarz does yeoman work in exposing what an egregious, not to say four-star, liar Colin Powell is, both in his recent book, It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership, and elsewhere. In his book, the large general harrumphs* re his abysmal 2003 presentation at the UN, giving to the…
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Inside of (some) neoliberals there is a socialist struggling to get out
I’m a big fan of Brad DeLong’s “Grasping Reality” blog. Brad is a liberal neoliberal’s liberal neoliberal. He knows a great deal about economic history, and knows that it was capitalism, and nothing else, that turned western civilization from a good deal for the top 10 percent into a good deal for potentially everyone. At…
Barack Obama: Failing to appease the unappeasable
Poor Barack Obama! No matter how hard he tries to make Wall Street and the CIA love him, they won’t. Brad DeLong asks why the Wall Street big shots are crying and then answers his own question: What is there about 50% real increases in equity values over less than 3 ½ years that is…
Princeton history professors and Berkeley economic professors: which is worse?
Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and he writes like this: “Although President Ronald Reagan was mocked by some as an actor in the White House who followed his script, Reagan was like Gingrich in that he spent much of his early adulthood deeply immersed in journals such…
Tim Geithner, Idiot Servant
Yet another entry pissing on poor old Tim? Pissing on poor old Tim isn’t going to reduce the unemployment rate, so maybe I should just shut up and fly to Vegas first class and run up some serious credit-card debt, which would, you know, actually stimulate the economy. But Vegas isn’t really my kind of…
Felix Salmon, too easily impressed
I’m a huge fan of Felix Salmon’s website, although I don’t think “a slice of lime in the soda” is going to beat “The Republic of Letters has a new address,” but Felix certainly comes a cropper with this installment, “The Smart and Charming Larry Summers.” Felix admits to not being much of a fan…
Thoughts on the current discontents
What’s happening in the Middle East? Damfino. Robert Darnton thinks it’s 1789. Ann Applebaum thinks it’s 1848. If Ann’s right, things ought to be pretty tight all around the Mediterranean around the year 2150 or so. Take that, Caesar Augustus!1 But what about the home front? Well, I had hoped to comment on Obama’s State…
Greg Mankiw is a big fat idiot
OK, Greg is, as I understand it, fairly svelte, and a distinguished Harvard professor to boot, but when you write a blog you go for the jugular. My sometime sparring partner/punching bag Brad DeLong, who really could stand to lose a few pounds, here knocks the stuffing out of Greg’s continuing whine that if those…
What happens when you weigh around four megayottagrams
You explode, of course, as a result of “runaway thermonuclear reactions triggered by gamma ray-driven antimatter production,” as the Daily Galaxy has it. If you scroll on down, you’ll learn that about 3,000 years ago, a white dwarf may have gone Type 1a supernova on our asses, releasing sufficient radiation to destroy us all. Or…