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In Defense of “Abstract Ideals”
By Wiz I’ve already been getting this clip of President Bush Obama explaining why we need to keep the Bush tax cuts for the rich emailed to me. Josh Marshall says that this is Obama demonstrating his...
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The Spirit of the Sixties?
by Nemo Over at the excellent U.S. Intellectual History Blog, Andrew Hartman has written a provocative post on the relationship between neo-liberalism and the “spirit of the 1960s.” Citing a number of...
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The Euro Crisis, Geography, and Globalization: Is Ireland like Detroit?
By Wiz There’s a lot to chew on in Paul Krugman’s new magnum opus on the failures of the Euro. But I wanted to riff off this point he makes: “America, we know, has a currency union that works, and we...
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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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Of Conspiracies, the Koch Brothers, and Individuals
by Weiner My old buddy Ezra Klein has great post on how the power of the super wealthy libertarian Koch brothers has been greatly exaggerated. Klein writes: in much the way that conservatives became...
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Labour Blues
by apini Yesterday’s FT featured a book review by the Conservative operative Danny Kruger. The book reviewed was The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox, a book that lays out the intellectual...
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Tony Judt Retrospective
by David Tony Judt (1948-2010) While Peter was participating in (and ably chronicling) the Occupy Chicago’s protest of the American Economic Association’s (AEA) annual conference, I stayed behind at...
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Obama 2012, Occupy Wall Street, and the Left
by David I attended an awesome Obama 2012 fundraiser on Thursday. I am a proud supporter (and occasional participant) of the Occupy Wall Street and broader Occupy movements. I see no inconsistency. The...
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Nazism and Fascism were Ideologies of the Right
by David Adolf Hitler: Not a Socialist Three days ago it was Yom HaShoah, the Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s a solemn occasion, one that should not be politicized. On this next day, however,...
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Scholarly Disputes and the Academic Crossfire
by David Michael Kazin In the latest round of “Historians Who Hate Each Other” I give you Michael Kazin and Sean Wilentz. Ok, so I don’t know if these guys actually hate each other. But it sure seems...
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