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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

Krugman’s Populist Fantasies

Paul Krugman’s transformation into a Howard Beale wannabe continues to (take your pick) astound/amuse/sadden. In today’s column, Krugman blasts Barack Obama for his “naïve” refusal to demonize those with whom he disagrees on public policy issues. ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Cato@Liberty,  17 Dec 2007

Lind on Libertarianism

In the piece Lind provides a potted history of America’s evolving political economy. In the opening act of 1932-1968, New Deal welfare-state liberalism occupied the political center, flanked on the left by economic populism and on the right by ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Cato@Liberty,  28 Nov 2007

Paul Krugman and the Unbearable Lameness of Partisanship

In a recent appearance on bloggingheads.tv with Mark Schmitt, I expressed disdain for the current spate of conservative-bashing books by Jonathan Chait, Greg Anrig, and Paul Krugman. Now don’t get me wrong: conservativism deserves some fairly spirited ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Cato@Liberty,  31 Oct 2007

The Liberaltarians Are Coming…

In his Washington Post column today, Meyerson bemoans the sinister influence of “Wall Street Democrats”: The younger masters of the universe who work on Wall Street like as not are liberal on cultural issues and appalled at Republican foreign policy, ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Cato@Liberty,  24 Oct 2007

Disaster Collectivism

Naomi Klein, darling of the loonie left, has a new book out called The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. The basic idea is that the insidious forces of neoliberalism take advantage of wars, economic crises, and natural disasters to ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Cato@Liberty,  17 Oct 2007

Invasion of the Cheney Snatchers

This eerie video clip of a 1994 interview with Dick Cheney has been making the rounds in recent days: In it, Cheney defends the Bush 41 administration’s decision not to proceed to Baghdad after expelling the Iraqi army from Kuwait. His description of ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Cato@Liberty,  16 Aug 2007

The Myth of the Rational Voter

But if you’re short on time, here are some shortcuts for getting up to speed on what Caplan has to say. First, Cato released last week a new Policy Analysis that is an excerpt from the book. In particular, I’d heartily recommend this paper to all ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Cato@Liberty,  4 Jun 2007

Abundance Has Arrived

Today is the official release date for my new book, The Age of Abundance. In it I offer a new interpretation of American history since World War II — one that focuses on the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes disorienting social changes triggered by ...

From BRINK LINDSEY, Cato@Liberty,  8 May 2007

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