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In which I Disagree with Paul Krugman
By Wiz The Krugmonster writes: The root of our current troubles lies in the debt American families ran up during the Bush-era housing bubble. Twenty years ago, the average American household’s debt was...
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Ayn Rand vs Karl Marx: Nobody Wins
by Weiner I tried to read The Fountainhead. I really did. But after ten or fifteen pages, I gave up. The text was so poorly written, so comically absurd yet mind-numbingly dull at the same time that I...
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Damn the Man, Save the Stuff We Like
by apini I just re-watched Empire Records for the first time since…1998? It used to be my favorite movie. It didn’t really hold up as well as I had hoped, but something did stick with me after...
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Gay Paradise in Zion? A Commentary on The Enlightenment Project
by Weiner Several years ago, I was having dinner in Dupont Circle, a gay-friendly neighbourhood in Washington, D.C., with a gay Jewish friend and his boyfriend, also a Jew. My friend, who describes...
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The New American Underclass, the Unraveling of America, and Bruce...
By Peter According to a recent study by the National Employment Law Project, the vast majority of new hires made since the Great Recession has started have been in low wage jobs. People are losing mid...
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A Different Cracow
by David Cracow I remembered. My memories of Warsaw from 12 years ago were much dimmer, but Cracow stood out in my mind. I remembered the old synagogues, the oldest built into the ground so as to avoid...
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Romney, Bain, Letters, and Archives
by David Mitt in the middle, celebrating his first love, money, along with the boys of Bain capital People in both parties are attacking GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney for his time at Bain Capital, a...
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Occupy Economics?: A Report Back from the Nerdiest Protest I’ve ever been to.
By Peter I just got back from Chicago, where, along with attending the American Historical Association, I participated in a series of protests held by Occupy Chicago, along with CACHE (Coalition...
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Hedge Funds, Holodecks, and the Science of Altruism
by David Leaf-cutter Ants Carrying Leaves Back to the Nest I just read a great article in last week’s New Yorker, “Kin and Kind: A Fight About the Genetics of Altruism,” by Jonah Lehrer. Unfortunately,...
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Quitting Goldman Sachs and the Logic of Capitalism
by David The internets is all abuzz about a fellow named Greg Smith, a former executive director of Goldman Sachs who publicly announced his resignation for the firm on the op-ed pages of the New York...
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