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May 17, 2010
Adagia Restaurant at Bancroft and College Has a New Menu
Recommended:
lamb
pizza (both vegetarian and carniverous)
squash pasta
Not recommended:
ham croquettes
chicken Caesar salad
Other:
bring back the duck!
bring back the chocolate bread pudding!
It's Like Ra-a-a-a-ain on Graduation Day!
Isn't it ironic? I thought global warming was supposed to make Berkeleu more like Santa Barbara, not mote like Portland...
William Galston Asks: "My Question Is Not Whether Larry Summers Is a Brilliant Brain but Whether There Is Anyone Who Has the Ability to Challenge His Point of View"
The answer is "yes." Tim Geithner, Peter Oszag, and Christy Romer can certainly Challenge Larry Summers. Jared Bernstein probably could, but he may not have realized that, as Christy Romer puts it, "it is a sign of respect when Larry argues with you. Far better than being ignored." And there is no f---ing doubt that Rahm Emmanuel can f---ing stand up to Larry Summers any f---ing time he wants.
Galston appears to me to simply be off-base.
Ed Luce surveys the terrain:
The Garance on the Kagan Thesis
Garance Franke-Ruta:
Kagan theses to be available online: The White House announced Monday that it would make Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's Princeton senior thesis available for online publication. Her Oxford graduate thesis would also be made available for online posting, a White House official said, as "a demonstration of our commitment to transparency." Permission... will be granted when the White House sends the Senate Judiciary Committee Kagan's responses to questions from the...
Elena Kagan's Undergraduate Thesis
UPDATE: Elena Kagan's thesis does not seem to have brought any clarity of thought. Interpretations of it seem to depend on whether the phrase "those who" (in "those who, more than half a century after socialism's decline, still wish to change America [in a radical way:]") means "people like my advisor Sean Wilentz and my brother" or "people like my advisor and my brother and me."
I believe it is much more likely than not that "those who" carries the first meaning. Remember, she was crafting...
Obama Fail: Why Cass Sunstein Should Not Repeat NOT Repeat NOT!! Be Director of OIRA. Never. No Way. No How
Umm... This ain't rocket science. This really ain't rocket science at all...
Benjamin Wallace-Wells:
Cass Sunstein Wants to Nudge Us: In OIRA’s cost-benefit calculations, the government’s willingness to spend depends on how expensive the damage will be — on what economists call the social cost of carbon. Sunstein and others in the government have spent several months trying to define this cost, and he talked me through the process. One of the most important issues is the discount rate &mdash...
Hoisted from Comments: Robert Waldmann on Peter Beinart, Formerly of The New Republic
Hoisted from Comments: Robert Waldmann writes:
links for 2010-05-16:Beinart's essay is eccelent and moving. However, I was particularly struck by the fact that it was written by a former TNR editor and sometimes hawk on Iraq. I'd say that Beinart has utterly abjured the false prophet Martin Peretz. I'd say he is truly repentent and may be welcomed back into the liberal church and that his self-criticism was adequate and he may be readmitted into the Party.
However, given his...
Eleanor Roosevelt Liveblogs World War II: May 17, 1940
Eleanor Roosevelt:
The President is asking today for a great increase in our national defenses.... One has but to read the record of what happened to Holland's Army—one-fourth wiped out—to realize why we must have modern weapons of war. This, of course, we must face and must pay for.... [I:]f democracy is to survive it must be because it meets the needs of its people. Anyone who knows this country knows that there are some people to whom the form of government under which they live...
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