The Private Sector Bail-Out of Europe’s Culture Industry
Meet the Journalist Who (Possibly) Invented the Phrase ‘Fiscal Cliff’
In the summer of 1989, the Illinois legislature approved a 20 percent hike on the state income tax for the sole purpose of generating an additional $251 million for public colleges and universities. The move, which guaranteed a tuition freeze and increased teaching salaries, was widely popular with the public. But education officials were unhappy—or worried, at least—because the tax increase had an expiration date of two years. READ MORE >>
The Obama Campaign Is Surprisingly Superstitious
Fear not, Mitt Romney supporters, your candidate will coast to victory today—if, that is, you put more stock in woodland creatures than in Nate Silver. READ MORE >>
Ronald Reagan Lives! But Will He Endorse Mitt Romney?
Tony Reynolds has long been a fan of Ronald Reagan. The Ohio-based Web developer and Gulf War veteran admired the former president’s oratorical prowess, focus on small business, and ability to reach across the aisle and longed for a way to remind today’s politicians what Reagan was like in action. He then found an unlikely inspiration: the late rapper Tupac Shakur. READ MORE >>
Yet Another Round of the Scalia-Posner Fight
Last month Richard A. Posner, a Chicago judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, reviewed Antonin Scalia’s new book, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts. Our review has apparently hit a nerve. To recap: READ MORE >>
