krebscycle

  • Johnathan Chait’s insane denial of Republican racism

    Just a week or so ago, Paul Ryan, the Budget Guru of the Republican Party, went on Bill Bennet’s radio show and said: “We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working…

  • Tedious lectures from delusional “realists”about Ukraine

    The internet and media has been positively saturated with stale lectures about how “decadent” Europe and “effeminate” America, led by our naive and hapless (ahem , “black”) President need to man up and drop our fuzzy butterfly dreams of post-history in the face of Shirtless Putin The Barbarian.  Perhaps our…

  • Serfs letters to Lord Koch

    These are just a few lines from the WSJ comments. See also  Thomas Jefferson would have hated Charles Koch. Take it away, grovelers: It is fashionable among liberals to hate the rich and bite the very hand that feeds them. Reading this was a great way to start my day,…

  • Thomas Jefferson would have hated Charles Koch

    Jefferson: I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property Then he goes on to write: Another means of silently lessening the inequality…

  • Pissing contests in Ukraine

    To beat Vladimir Putin, we’re going to need to be a little more like him. The last two weeks have witnessed the upending of the European order and the close of the post-Cold War era. With his invasion of Crimea and the instant absorption of the strategic peninsula, Vladimir Putin…

  • Obama’s Waterloo

  • Economics and the mathematics of the Koch brothers.

    Economics and the mathematics of the Koch brothers.

    Robert Lucas won the Nobel Prize for Economics and is widely cited as an authority. One of his more important papers from the 1990s  discuses tax policy and uses a mathematical model of the economy to supposedly show that taxing capital gains is a bad idea. The mathematical model is…

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates and the broken culture of progressive America

    Obama-era progressives view white supremacy as something awful that happened in the past whose historical vestiges still afflict black people today. Coates. There is a tiny little fictional Obama who lives in the tiny little stale imaginations of progressive intellectuals – one that they don’t ever want to bother to…

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates runs interference for Paul Ryan: updated

    Racism has always been the not-so-secret engine of American politics. Generations of politicians have been able to mobilize white voters by appealing to their fears and prejudices. As open racism became less acceptable, these politicians have become adept at dual  messages: explicit enough to galvanize the open racists, smooth and…

  • Enthusiastic Proud Democrat

    There are two reasons I am an enthusiastic and proud Democrat: The Democratic Party does a lot of good and includes many wonderful, hard working, brilliant people. The Stimulus saved America from a massive depression. The Democratic US President got America out of a brutal and hopeless war in Iraq,…