A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed
Donald Trump is the perfect "moderate"
Ezra Klein
Donald Trump’s secret political weapon is his mastery of reality TV
Todd VanDerWerff
An Altogether Different Angle
David Warsh
A New Magnifier
David Warsh
The Scotchman Returns To The Model, Acuity Greatly Enhanced
David Warsh
Government employment in context
The FRED Blog
The Machine that Changed the World
David Warsh
Why Jimmy Carter is a great American leader
Jonathan Allen
I worked for the governor of Louisiana during Katrina. Here are 5 things I learned.
Robert Mann
The composition effect in the labor force participation rate
The FRED Blog
29 August 2015
22 August 2015
Links of the Week - 21 August 2015
A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed
Discovering the Myth of the Lost Cause in Montgomery, Alabama
Mark Perry
When was the first traffic light installed? Today in 1914.
Joseph Stromberg
The case against voter ID laws, in one chart
German Lopez
The Tea Party finally has its very own presidential candidate: Donald Trump
Jonathan Allen
GDP Revisions
The FRED Blog
This California city just built the country's first protected intersection for bikes
Joseph Stromberg
This browser hack reveals the truth about “political correctness”
Amanda Taub
The real reason American public transportation is such a disaster
Joseph Stromberg
Discovering the Myth of the Lost Cause in Montgomery, Alabama
Mark Perry
When was the first traffic light installed? Today in 1914.
Joseph Stromberg
The case against voter ID laws, in one chart
German Lopez
The Tea Party finally has its very own presidential candidate: Donald Trump
Jonathan Allen
GDP Revisions
The FRED Blog
This California city just built the country's first protected intersection for bikes
Joseph Stromberg
This browser hack reveals the truth about “political correctness”
Amanda Taub
The real reason American public transportation is such a disaster
Joseph Stromberg
Ana Swanson
Matt O'Brien
15 August 2015
Links of the Week - 14 August 2015
A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed
A single image captures how the American house has changed over 400 years
Emily Badger
Freshwater’s Wrong Turn
Paul Krugman
Sarcasm and Science
Paul Krugman
Jamestown excavation unearths four bodies — and a mystery in a small box
Michael E. Ruane
The Problem with Some Subscription Services
Derek Guy
Donald Trump: Honesty Is for Chumps
Jack Shafer
Rewriting Turkish History to Fit the Ideology
Jonathan Wight
Is radical leftism a trap for minorities?
Noah Smith
We Don’t Really Care About Car Accidents
Kevin Klinkenberg
How to Fix Our Interstates
Reihan Salam
A single image captures how the American house has changed over 400 years
Emily Badger
Freshwater’s Wrong Turn
Paul Krugman
Sarcasm and Science
Paul Krugman
Jamestown excavation unearths four bodies — and a mystery in a small box
Michael E. Ruane
The Problem with Some Subscription Services
Derek Guy
Donald Trump: Honesty Is for Chumps
Jack Shafer
Rewriting Turkish History to Fit the Ideology
Jonathan Wight
Is radical leftism a trap for minorities?
Noah Smith
We Don’t Really Care About Car Accidents
Kevin Klinkenberg
How to Fix Our Interstates
Reihan Salam
10 August 2015
Heritage = Hate, at least some of the time
I have a hard time wrapping my head around the dichotomy between 'heritage' and 'hate' in these discussions. Why exactly are these two ideas supposed to be mutually exclusive? I guess it's mainly because we've never really tried to reckon with slavery since the mid 1870s, and the effects of our collective head-in-the-sand explain pretty much all of the so-called 'problems with race' in the US since.
We've got dozens of Holocaust memorials and museums in the United States, which I think is a reflection both of the long history of Jewish culture in the US and of the role the US played in ending the Holocaust. On the other hand, we've got very few memorials to slaves, and virtually no museums to teach this important, painful, and essential part of our nation's history.
Germany has also got some Holocaust memorials and museums to help them sort out what that period means in their history. Eric Foner pointed out that if Germany had built a big bunch of memorials and museums to American slavery before they built any for the Holocaust, it might look as if they were trying to hide something.
We've got dozens of Holocaust memorials and museums in the United States, which I think is a reflection both of the long history of Jewish culture in the US and of the role the US played in ending the Holocaust. On the other hand, we've got very few memorials to slaves, and virtually no museums to teach this important, painful, and essential part of our nation's history.
Germany has also got some Holocaust memorials and museums to help them sort out what that period means in their history. Eric Foner pointed out that if Germany had built a big bunch of memorials and museums to American slavery before they built any for the Holocaust, it might look as if they were trying to hide something.
08 August 2015
Links of the Week - 7 August 2015
A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed
The Old Man and the CPI
Paul Krugman
Uber and the New Liberal Consensus
Paul Krugman
How school district boundaries are gerrymandered to keep poor kids segregated
Libby Nelson
The F story about the Great Inflation
Simon Wren-Lewis
The Moderate Republican's Case for Donald Trump
Bruce Bartlett
How conservative media helped the far-right take over the Republican Party
David Roberts
Gross Domestic Output, Explained
Matthew Yglesias
Hillary Clinton wants to take on "quarterly capitalism" — here's what that means
Matthew Yglesias
Jeb Bush now says he wouldn’t ‘phase out’ Medicare. What he would do is just as wrong.
Paul Waldman
Gold is doomed
Matt O'Brien
The Old Man and the CPI
Paul Krugman
Uber and the New Liberal Consensus
Paul Krugman
How school district boundaries are gerrymandered to keep poor kids segregated
Libby Nelson
The F story about the Great Inflation
Simon Wren-Lewis
The Moderate Republican's Case for Donald Trump
Bruce Bartlett
How conservative media helped the far-right take over the Republican Party
David Roberts
Gross Domestic Output, Explained
Matthew Yglesias
Hillary Clinton wants to take on "quarterly capitalism" — here's what that means
Matthew Yglesias
Jeb Bush now says he wouldn’t ‘phase out’ Medicare. What he would do is just as wrong.
Paul Waldman
Gold is doomed
Matt O'Brien
01 August 2015
Links of the Week - 31 July 2015
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Here's Why the Huffington Post Is Wrong About Donald Trump
David Corn
If Guns Make Us Safer, Why Not Let Them Into the U.S. Capitol?
Josh Zeitz
There's a simple way to end gerrymandering. Too bad Congress made it illegal.
Matthew Yglesias
Free-market ideology and the burden of proof
Noah Smith
We don’t say “plane accident.” We shouldn’t say “car accident” either.
Joseph Stromberg
Dodd-Frank turns 5 today — it's Obama's most under-appreciated achievement
Mike Konczal
Pushing back on “quarterly capitalism” and incentivizing more investment
Jared Bernstein
Unlike Jeb Bush, John Kasich is trying something different
Paul Waldman
Finland is the poster child for why the euro doesn’t work
Matt O'Brien
Survey expectations - some more evidence
Here's Why the Huffington Post Is Wrong About Donald Trump
David Corn
If Guns Make Us Safer, Why Not Let Them Into the U.S. Capitol?
Josh Zeitz
There's a simple way to end gerrymandering. Too bad Congress made it illegal.
Matthew Yglesias
Free-market ideology and the burden of proof
Noah Smith
We don’t say “plane accident.” We shouldn’t say “car accident” either.
Joseph Stromberg
Dodd-Frank turns 5 today — it's Obama's most under-appreciated achievement
Mike Konczal
Pushing back on “quarterly capitalism” and incentivizing more investment
Jared Bernstein
Unlike Jeb Bush, John Kasich is trying something different
Paul Waldman
Finland is the poster child for why the euro doesn’t work
Matt O'Brien
Survey expectations - some more evidence
Noah Smith
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