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Monday, January 27, 2014
What's the matter with New Jersey?
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In an earlier post , I pointed out that that the identity of "red" and "blue" states today is completely different from...
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Inflation and growth, part 2
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Last month I had a post about the relationship between inflation and growth . I said that it looked like there was no relationship until in...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
What's the matter with West Virginia?
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Kevin Williamson has an article on poverty in Appalachia . In it, he quotes the publisher of a local newspaper in Owsley County, Kentucky: ...
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Opportunity
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It's often said that Americans believe in equal opportunity, while Europeans believe in equal results. Conservatives celebrate this as ...
Monday, January 6, 2014
Republicans and Evolution
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In the last few days, Charles Blow and Paul Krugman have both written about a Pew survey that asked whether humans and other living thing...
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Literature and Politics, part 2
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A 2010 survey sponsored by Vanity Fair magazine and 60 Minutes asked "Which of the following American writers has made the most importa...
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Literature and politics
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In 1990, a Gallup poll asked people if they had ever read a book by the following authors: Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Tom Wolfe, William...
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