Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2757
July 13, 2010
Stranger Than Fiction
by Patrick Appel
This starts a little slow but finishes well.
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The Market For Mistakes
by Patrick Appel
Dan Ariely explains behavioral economics:
I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would themarket fix mistakes instead of aggravating them? When the Chicagoeconomists sometimes (reluctantly) admits that people make mistakes,they claim that people make different types of mistakes that willeventually cancel each other out in the market. Behavioral economicsargues that, instead, people will often make the same mistake, and theindividual mistakes can aggregate...
The Policing Of The Discourse, Ctd
by Chris Bodenner
Greenwald keeps the controversy fresh:
[J:]ust to underscore how mild and mainstream were Nasr's firing comments, consider this 2002 column from ultimate establishment centrist David Ignatius, expressing "sincere respect for Fadlallah's intellect and passion; he is one of the few Muslim clerics who recognize that there is an urgent need for Islam to find a better accommodation with the West"; this Economist editorial on Fadlallah's moderating and progressive influence in the...
Sarah Wants To Be Your Friend
by Chris Bodenner
Michelle Cottle considers Palin a "p.r. genius":
[U:]nlike other categories of the rich and famous, political celebs(especially populist firebrands) cannot risk being seen as remote orout of touch. But here's where Palin's embrace of new media saves theday. Her perky, quirky tweets and chatty Facebook items make her fans feel asthough they have a direct line to her—despite the oft-voiced assumptionthat Palin (like so many pols) does not write most (if any) of her ownFacebook...
Believing Sarah Palin
by Dave Weigel
Like I said in my first post, I guest-blogged for the Daily Dish back in 2006. I don't remember anyone, at the time, challenging the decision. So I was unprepared for the rat-a-tat of criticism I got for signing up this week. To quote Baseball Crank, who kept up a drumbeat about this on Twitter, "David Frum and David Weigel are free to associate with Andrew Sullivan, but how can they now call anyone else on associating with crackpots?"
There are two levels of criticism, both of s...
The Evolutionary Case Against Monogamy, Ctd
by Chris Bodenner
Christopher Ryan emails:
Not sure if my $0.02 is welcome in this conversation, but your reader's recent comment contains the essence of what we're trying to get at in our book. He or she writes:
In my eventual marriage, I will insist on monogamy. I don't think I could be that free, sexually, with someone if, in the back of my mind, the possibility existed that they were thinking of someone else.That's just it. The possibility will ALWAYS exist that they may envision someone...
Second Thoughts on the New Black Panthers
by Dave Weigel
Adam Serwer the claim he made yesterday about the timing of the case against the
New Black Panther Party -- the claim I linked, a bit too hastily.
I wrote my yesterday about the Justice Department's decision not to pursue criminal charges against the NBPP during the Bush administration because I had seen conservatives arguing that it was made by the Obama administration. It wasn't. I did not mean to suggest that the civilcase, which the DoJ dropped in May of last...
Sanity On Social Security? Ctd
by Chris Bodenner
A reader writes:
In differentiating between blue collar workers and other workers, I think the biggest obstacle is that it would require more administration, bureaucracy, and paperwork (which would decrease the cost effectiveness of reform), as well as create a political problem of how you define the difference.
In regards to people suggesting that Social Security be means tested (and especially people who recommend it be shifted away from payroll taxes), I worry that it would...
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