Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2829
June 22, 2010
Development Economics 101
William Easterly - Economics - Social Sciences - Directories - Poverty
Why Doesn't The Right Like Soccer?
Seth Masket has a theory:
I think the soccer issue is one instance where conservative leaders are
simply trying to draw a line. They feel they've made enough
accommodations to other countries and cultures. They simply do not
acknowledge soccer as an American pastime and feel they are justified
in trying to exclude it from our main culture. We cannot just keep
adding things to our nation and assume that the nation will still stand
for anything. Lines must be drawn. This far, no farther.
O...
So, Are We Winning In Afghanistan?
CFR interviews Stephen Biddle about the war in Afghanistan. This is about as positive a spin you can put on the situation:
We're at one of those moments where it's very hard to tell whetherthings are going well or badly. Counterinsurgency always has this"darkest before the dawn" quality. When you start with a toughsituation, you introduce reinforcements and you begin to contestinsurgent control of population areas they now control, violence thenrises. Enemy causalities go up, causalities to...
Facial Recognition And Sexual Orientation
United States - Gene - Colleges and Universities - Genetic variation - Monsanto
McWhorter Bait
Dan Steinberg - Recreation - Manute Bol - Washington Redskins - Sudan Sunrise
As The Fourth Estate Crumbles, Ctd
A reader writes:
For your West Seattle reader,
the place to go for city and state coverage is PubliCola, a
well-funded site run by two ex-Stranger reporters, Josh Feit and Erica
C. Barnett. They report the heck out of City Hall and Olympia. In fact, Josh
was the first online reporter to get state house accreditation a couple
of years ago.
Another writes:
There are a bevy of local blogs for Seattle neighborhoods started by the "Geeky Swedes,"
who started the My Ballard blog for my...
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Cameron vs Spending
Massie is pleased:
The much more lightly taxed American economy could do with more revenue (Br...This was, on the face of it, a good budget. Four out of every five
pounds in savings come from spending restraint, not tax rises and this
seems to strike the right balance. "We have had to pay the bills of
past irresponsibility" said the Chancellor as he opened and closed his
speech with a reminder that it's the record of the last government that
makes this extra budget necessary in the first place.
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