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A cruel epigram on the execution of Troy Davis.
Archive for September, 2011
September 22nd, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
Greg Sargent, whose Plum Line blog is really one of the best political blogs on the Interwebs, has a good post up today poking holes at Matt Bai’s latest effort at High-Broderism. Bai makes the following assertion about Obama’s support for tax increases on the wealthy: No matter how popular such a tax increase may [...]
September 21st, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
For those who enjoy a well written (and free) book review, take a look at Matthew Kotchen’s review of my Climatopolis. It has just been published in the Journal of Economic Literature. Matt and I are friends and co-authors but economists are always tough on each other.
September 21st, 2011
Category: Climate change, Energy and Environment
A shoddy chart by the EIA spreads unwarranted gloom.
September 21st, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
Heathrow is a nice airport. It is nicer than LAX and JFK and maybe as nice as Beijing’s. I return to LA in 40 minutes but I wanted to cross-post Henry Overman’s blog about my LSE talk.
September 20th, 2011
Good news from the Bay State, as PPP’s latest poll shows Elizabeth Warren up two points over Scott Brown. Bad news from Ron Suskind, who strongly suggests that Tim Geithner and White House officials undermined her, and didn’t like interference from women anyway. Well, there’s an obvious way to remedy any problems, and not-coincidentally move [...]
September 20th, 2011
Nuclear power is doomed by its negative learning curve.
September 19th, 2011
Category: Britain, Politics and Leadership
Mark Kleiman is one of a number of smart American leftists who have asked me why the Liberal-Democratic Party and Labour Party don’t either merge or run in coalition, producing a majority left-wing government in the UK. A Lib-Lab coalition in the expected 2015 election is certainly possible and some experienced politicians want to lay [...]