Why some cities are accused of using the police as revenue generators
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The American conservative movement has changed with the advent of MAGA and the economic nationalism associated with it. However, there never was a “golden age” of conservatism, as the William F. Buckley brand was terribly flawed from the beginning.
Modeling Homer’s World An economic approach to Homer’s Odyssey1 is most definitely not about “what Homer really meant.” Instead, the economic approach views Homer through a lens that Homer himself probably never entertained, namely a series of relatively simple models about preferences and constraints. The economic approach is thus a distortion, but perhaps a useful or interesting distortion. It is taking the richness of ideas, presentation, and narrative in Homer and remixing it. For all the complexity lost, […]
I recently discovered that only 1 military empire, the Byzantines, was able to successfully use currency and not fall into the debt spending and eventual debasement or unstable inflation of their monetary system. There’s several other examples from the bronze age or from pre-colonial Americas, but they didn’t use money in the modern sense. Every single other example I could find was eventually put into a position where debt spending was necessary and the debt spiral that followed […]
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A hit record is something that someone hears once, maybe twice, and can’t get out of their head. Or as Ahmet Ertegun said… A hit record is something you hear on late-night radio that causes you to get out of bed, get dressed, and go to the all-night record shop to buy. A hit record can be a chart success, but not necessarily. The Dave Matthews Band’s first hit record was “Ants Marching,” which showed up […]
An interesting column yesterday in the Washington Post. An excerpt: The crisis of democratic government then, is actually a crisis of progressive government. People seem to feel that they have been taxed, regulated, bossed around and intimidated by left-of-center politicians for decades — but the results are bad and have been getting worse. New York, where I live, and Florida, where I often visit, provide an interesting contrast. They have comparable populations — New York with about 20 […]
Watching the Banners of Empire Unfurl Washington, Israel, and Turkey conspired in the destruction and partition of Syria, and now they face conflict among themselves. It is enough to put you on the side of the terrorists. An Israeli government committee has advised that Israel must prepare for war with Turkey, suspected of intentions of restoring the Ottoman Empire which would encroach on Israel’s plans for Greater Israel. Such a war would present Washington with a dilemma. Turkey […]
Politicians respond to pressure. If we want them to actually carry out the cuts they claim to stand for, it’s up to us to provide that pressure.