When the Blue Chips Are Down, in Gov We Trust is an essay in the Washington Post that does challenges the notion that corporations do things cheaper and more efficiently than governments can. The party line is that the “miracle of the marketplace” encourages and rewards efficency and innovation. Paul Farhi sees it otherwise.
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In the essay Worse Than No Deal At All, Ahmad Faruqui of the American Institute of International Studies in California examines the Clinton-Barak deal. You know, the one Arafat turned down. Practically everyone has been talking about what a good deal this was for Palestinians, but Faruqui thinks it wasn’t all that hot. The Palestinian [...]

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In David Broder’s Washington Post column today (’Reform’ Derailed), Mr. Broder speculates whether the Supreme Court’s decision on CPPA implied how they will vote on the McCain-Feingold-Shays-Meehan campaign finance reform bill. Broder seems to think that the Supreme Court will strike the latter down simply because they struck down the former. As Mr. Broder frames [...]

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David Brock starts Blinded by the Light discussing his start in politics in high school and college in Berkeley. Reading this first chapter reminded me of my own early experiences with politics in college when I campaigned for Bill Clinton’s first term. And it’s led me to analyze why I didn’t get more heavily [...]

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Label Whores, Take Two
Geoffrey Nunberg takes a second look at “labeling” of conservatives and liberals. Conservatives say that the media is biased because the media identifies conservative groups as such more often than it identifies liberal causes.
As I was reading Nunberg’s article, it occured to me that 1) all of the figures that are being [...]

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