Book Report 2012
While the little one made 2012 a light blogging year, I tried to keep up with my book list as a consolation. Past book reports are here: 2011; 2010; and 2009. 1. The Death and Life of the Great American… Continue Reading
Month: December 2012
How to Frame the Economic Inequality Question
It’s safe to say I disagree with him on the merits, but Timothy Noah frames the question provocatively in the correspondence section of the latest Claremont Review of Books, responding to William Voegeli’s unfavorable reviwe of his book The Great… Continue Reading
Customer Feedback: Lay Impressions on the Week’s Politics, No. 2
First, some revisions to the mission statement of this series. As a relatively attentive, firmly right-of-center, yet critical constituent, I offer this “customer feedback” to a fictional GOP leader curious to know whether and how one constituent received the week’s… Continue Reading
Customer Feedback: Lay Impressions on the Week’s Politics
Here’s my angle: I’m a political junkie with a demanding day job and a wife and toddler at home. Any big chunks of time I can find (usually long walks with my daughter when she won’t sleep any other way)… Continue Reading
The Fiscal Cliff and the Showdown Between Redistribution and Property Rights
…But first, Milton Friedman agreeing with a socialist: “One of the reasons why I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over, and the two together form a coalition against the… Continue Reading