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Odds and ends
1. Commenter Floccina directed me to a video showing Matt Yglesias’s ideal city. 2. A back issue of Harpers had an article discussing the possibility of legalizing drugs. This comment caught my eye:...
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Immigration, wages, and the Phillips Curve
As you may know, the actual Phillips Curve is about the relationship between unemployment and wage inflation. That’s the relationship A.W. Phillips actually identified, and it’s still the correct...
View ArticleNationalism rots your brain
I don’t think people realize how profoundly nationalism distorts their view of the world. Consider a recent comment in response to my complaint about people’s obsession with the Gaza War: I suggest...
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The once and future king
So let me get this straight. The President of the United States encouraged the Chinese to build concentration camps in Xinjiang. The Chinese built concentration camps in Xinjiang. In response, we...
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Political and aesthetic preferences
The arts are often viewed as being in some sense “liberal”. This could mean many different things. Art might make people more liberal. Liberals might be more likely to make art. Liberals might be more...
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Contrarian views
1. The FT reports that we are edging ever closer to WWIII: European intelligence agencies have warned their governments that Russia is plotting violent acts of sabotage across the continent as it...
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Trust, but verify
In a recent post, Tyler Cowen offers some views on a wide variety of issues. He begins with some reassuring remarks about the future of American democracy, and then offers some highly pessimistic...
View ArticleThe new (NIMBY) Trump
In the upcoming presidential election, the issues really don’t matter at all. Nobody in their right mind believes a thing that Trump says, so it’s all guesswork as to what he will do in office. And...
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Not guilty
The New York case against Trump was one of those all too frequent examples of prosecutorial overreach. It was a bullshit charge based on a highly creative definition of election law. If I had been a...
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