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To Be or Not to Be: The UK Referendum
The big news over the weekend in the United Kingdom (UK) is that, after having secured some kind of deal from his European Union (EU) partners, Prime Minister David Cameron has called for an “in-out” referendum on EU membership to be … Continue reading
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South Carolina
The South Carolina primary, scheduled for this Saturday, is shaping up to be a pivotal event in the GOP nomination. There is a very good chance that this vote will produce the winnowing of the field that will mark the … Continue reading
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Greatest BloombergView Article Ever [1]
Megan McArdle, whom I have previously described as the lonely libertarian over at BloombergView, has produced probably the best article ever to appear in this medium, which is pretty much relentlessly left-wing. (So left-wing, in fact, that it makes me … Continue reading
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Young Turkeys Do Vote for Thanksgiving
The Economist has recently run a special report on the young, concluding that the roughly 1.8 billion people in the world between the ages of 15 to 30 are an “oppressed minority.” The report identified a number of policies that … Continue reading
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Greetings From The Road
I am currently on vacation, so this will be a brief post, mostly with some recommended reading/listening. Milo Yiannopoulos I first encountered this guy when I read “Sexbots: Why Women Should Panic,” which is one of the most hilariously incendiary … Continue reading
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Donald Trump: Crony Capitalist Par Excellence
The Wall Street Journal has just run a lengthy, front-page article entitled “Trump and His Debts: A Narrow Escape.” The article makes clear that Trump is a crony capitalist par excellence. It’s a well-known fact that Trump was in deep … Continue reading
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ISIS (Part One)
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, have thrown the debate about ISIS into overdrive, particularly among the presidential candidates. Several strands have emerged from these discussions, but I think that their taxonomy is not often clearly … Continue reading
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The Statist Mindset and Other Short Takes
I just read an article in BloombergView yesterday by Cass Sunstein, who is a law professor at Harvard. It was a roundup of a number of books published last year on “behavioral economics” (which is an absurd descriptor, since all … Continue reading
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More on Trump
(If you read the title of this quickly, you will note the slight play on words.) My post on Trump has generated a lot of comment, so I think that it is worthwhile to spend a little more time on … Continue reading
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Trump
Donald Trump’s poll numbers continue to defy gravity. This requires greater scrutiny. A sacrifice is needed: actually listening to one of Trump’s speeches. And your intrepid correspondent has done this, all 95 minutes of the one he gave in Iowa … Continue reading
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