Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2709

Correction

In Dave Weigel's post discussing the Trig controversy, he wrote:

Among the people who told me that Alaskans were well aware of Palin's
pregnancy were Shannyn Moore, an award-winning and left-leaning
political radio host who has been roundly attacked by Palin fans.

Moore actually said that everyone in Alaska knew that Bristol - not Sarah - Palin was pregnant. He muddled the two up.

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The View From Your Window

Massa Martana, Italy, 12 pm

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Waiting On Innovation

Douthat sketched out the conservative case against cap-and-trade yesterday. Leonhardt takes issue with one of Ross's parallels:

[Douthat's case is that:] just as ingenuity came to the rescue in the past, allowing people to use resources more efficiently than they ever had before, it could do so again — providing us with ways to emit far less carbon for every dollar of gross domestic product. And I — like many others, I imagine — would be thrilled if that were what the future held. But I think...

The Other Affirmative Action, Ctd

A reader writes:

I'm a big believer in expanding class-based affirmative action.  But I think one important step that should also be taken is the ending of legacy admissions at private schools, colleges, and universities. 

The fact that the children of America's elite are given an opportunity to get an Ivy League education, and the prestige that goes with it, even though they may be less qualified than other applicants is one of the major flaws in any claim that the U.S. is, or ever has...

Who Cheats More: Bankers Or Politicians?

Dan Ariely has a tentative answer:

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How To Rebuild Neoconservatism: Palestine

One of the more appealing aspects of neoconservatism in the wake of 9/11 was its belief - utopian in retrospect, idealist at the time - that the only way past the pathologies of Jihadism was some kind of model Arab democracy that could pave the way for others to follow, thereby draining the Arab desert of the autocracy that breeds terror. We know what happened in Iraq - about as catastrophic a failure as one can imagine. The face-saving patch-up is still unraveling before our eyes, as al...

Yglesias Award Nominee

"Although he now denies that lots of informal — and some formal — coordination took place on Journolist, to his credit listserv founder Ezra Klein was a force for moderation. He stopped others from organizing a weekly message, stopped people from organizing open letters on Journolist (after they did so on one occasion), wouldn't let those currently working in the government on the list, and seemed more reasonable than many in his remarks," - Jonathan Strong, Daily Caller.



Ezra K...

The View From Your Window Contest: Winner #8

Readers are starting to get scary-good at this game. One writes:

Alright you bastard. This is the first one that looked familiar to me but only in a general way. I can't make out any specific clues, even when zooming in Photoshop. Sicily is as close as I can get. I can't see as how anyone gets closer than that, even using Google Maps/Google Earth as has been done previously.

Another writes:

The cobblestone courtyard indicates it's not North Americaand the 1728 (or 1723?) inscription on the...

Mickey On Journo-List

The cranky independent merely wonders why open discussions between lost of journalists couldn't be conducted, you know, in public:

"Journolist" was all about careerism from the get go. Salam's defense both confirms it and fits right in.

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Good News, Everyone?

Contra Noam Scheiber, McArdle has a long post against Elizabeth Warren. Megan doesn't like how Warren uses data:

If we're going to have a consumer financial protection agency, I want
one that has a keen eye to the empirical evidence on consumer
welfare--not one that makes progressives most happy by reinforcing
their prior beliefs.

Cowen is leery as well, with a provocative analogy.

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