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Michael Lind’s Economic Philistinism

In a recently published article for the journal Democracy, Michael Lind of the New America Foundation lays out “The Case for Goliath” (registration required) — i.e., for returning to the good old days of price-and-entry regulation and cartelized ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Cato@Liberty,  16 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Michael Lind,  Federal Communications Commission,  Michael Powell,  MCI,  AT&T Inc.

Nostalgianomics

“The America I grew up in was a relatively equal middle-class society. Over the past generation, however, the country has returned to Gilded Age levels of inequality.” So sighs Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize–winning Princeton economist and New York ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Reason,  26 May 2009
Related Topics: Paul Krugman,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Barack Obama,  Harvard University,  Federal Communications Commission

The Closing of the Conservative Mind

If you’re unclear what’s wrong with conservatism these days, I urge you to check out the tragicomic dustup accidentally provoked last week by my colleague Jerry Taylor at National Review Online’s “The Corner” blog. I don’t want to give a blow-by-blow ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Cato@Liberty,  19 May 2009
Related Topics: Sean Hannity,  Rush Limbaugh,  Rodney King,  Richard Posner,  Barack Obama

A Brief Reply to Rosenblum

Nancy’s response is a model of judicious, careful, and thoughtful argument. I don’t find much in it to disagree with. Which raises the question: why are our overall evaluations of partisanship so different? We both see a mix of good and bad in both ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Cato Unbound,  17 Feb 2009

A Brief Reply to Farrell

Henry argues that my criticisms of partisanship are valid enough, but that the vices I identify (ideological blinkers, differing standards of judgment for comrades and rivals) aren’t specific to party ID. I agree completely! The problems I discuss go ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Cato Unbound,  12 Feb 2009

Nostalgianomics: If the Shoe Fits…

In a recent post commenting on my new Cato paper, Matt Yglesias just doesn’t get why I would accuse Paul Krugman of peddling nostalgia for the good old days of his boyhood. Indeed, Matt says my whole argument is “kind of silly.” Here’s the gist of Matt’ ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Cato@Liberty,  11 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Matt Yglesias,  Paul Krugman,  AT&T Inc.

Partisanship: Still Half-Empty

In her essay, and at greater length in her book, Nancy Rosenblum makes a convincing case that American political independents don’t deserve their good press. In particular, she cites findings from the political science literature that independents ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Cato Unbound,  4 Feb 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  George W. Bush,  Sarah Palin,  U.S. Congress

The End of Jacob Weisberg

In an article for Slate (another version appears in Newsweek) entitled “The End of Libertarianism,” Jacob Weisberg mocks libertarians and other free-market supporters for arguing that interventionist government policies contributed to the financial ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Cato@Liberty,  20 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Jacob Weisberg,  Newsweek,  Milton Friedman,  Ben Bernanke,  U.S. Democratic Party

Sorry Barack, Sorry Hillary: Their Tuition Plans Won't Help Lower-Income Kids Go To College Or End Inequality

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From BRINK LINDSEY, The New Republic,  3 Mar 2008

Follow Huckabee’s Money

I read in Robert Novak’s column this morning that Mike Huckabee held a fundraiser earlier this week at the Houston home of Dr. Steven Hotze. As Novak notes, Hotze is “a leader in the highly conservative Christian Reconstruction movement.” Christian ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Cato@Liberty,  20 Dec 2007
Related Topics: Robert Novak,  Mike Huckabee

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