David Frum's Blog, page 73

No, Overweight People Don't Live Longer

Remember that study about how overweight people lived longer?

Will the Euro Survive?

Despite Euro elite expectations, Italian voters have not meekly submitted to foreign-imposed austerity.

The Practical Case Against Medicare for All

Stephen Brill's TIME magazine essay on hospital charges is an expose in the grand tradition of exposes.

Make Democrats Own Their Hagel-Flop

At CNN, I propose a way for Republicans to handle Hagel.

Who Will Suffer Most From the Sequester?

The Pew Center on the States, a division of The Pew Charitable Trusts, published a report last November that outlines which states would be most affected by the sequester.

What Are the GOP's Sequester Priorities?

Ezra Klein is forgivably baffled by the GOP's strategy on the sequester. As he understands it, the GOP priorities are:

Should We Rejoice a Post-Work Future? Ctd.

Ross Douthat’s recent column on shortening the workweek in order to make room for more employees is not a new debate. For example, the 40 hour work week is with us as a result of years of struggle from the labor movement.

Stuart Stevens, Half Right

Stuart Stevens is right about at least one thing:

Turn Down the Lights

The above map strikes me as an issue of aesthetics, but that might be because I grew up in an area with minimal light pollution (thank you, rural Nebraska.) As Mother Jones points out, an overlit America is a less healthy America:

In London

I'll be speaking Tuesday at Westminster to the Henry Jackson Society, and then on Wednesday at the British think tank, Policy Exchange. Both events are open to the public, but will require registration.