Via Megan McArdle’s shiny, new Atlantic blog, Brad DeLong has an absolutely brilliant post about early 20th century America. You really should read the whole thing, it’s pretty stunning. The thing that sticks out most is the absolute material poverty in which essentially everyone lived.
Few households in Homestead in 1900 had […]
Having decided that Wikipedia is basically a joke, full stop, I deigned to attempt to vandalize the entry for Dada. Now, if you know anything about Dada and you have a sense of humor, replacing the entire entry with the phrase “Fipity Fap” repeated a few hundred times followed by a dozen or so […]
A recent email exchange with Thoreau at Unqualified Offerings got me thinking about the best, jargon-free way to explain one of the most counter-intuitive results of international trade theory. Thoreau is a really smart dude, what with being a physicist who’s starting a tenure-track position at a reasonably notable California university this fall, but […]
The title is shamelessly lifted from my friend Thoreau at Unqualified Offerings. Yesterday, the lot of cowardly bed-wetters we’ve elected to carry out the farcical puppet show we call governance decided to grant the unpopular Bush administration carte blanch to violate whatever natural and Constitutionally guaranteed rights they damn well please. From the […]
