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David Brooks Endorses Protection-Racket Government
The best argument for electing Mitt Romney president has always been the following: The only factor that can possibly trump congressional Republicans' ideological extremism is the extremity of their partisanship. Allow me to explain. READ MORE >>
Did Obama Choose The Right Message?
The Liberal Media, in Love With Our Narrative
Keep Erskine Bowles Away from Treasury
ERSKINE BOWLES, best known as the Democratic co-chairman of the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission, is reported by The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post to be under consideration to succeed Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary in a second Obama term. He says he doesn’t want the job, but no matter who gets elected, Bowles is angling for some kind of prominent role in any future deal on spending and taxes. Let’s not give it to him. READ MORE >>
Will Conservatives Keep Tolerating Mitt’s New Moderation?
Against Our Debate Obsession
An Undecided Voter Watches the Vice-Presidential Debate
One of the great things about being an undecided voter is that politicians are desperate for my vote. And believe me, I make them work for it. You see, I don’t belong to a political party. I’m more complicated than that. I like to dig a little deeper than most voters, and I take my decision about who to vote for very seriously. READ MORE >>
Show Me the Money
Seduction by Contract: Law, Economics, and Psychology in Consumer MarketsBy Oren Bar-Gill (Oxford University Press, 280 pp., $40) WHAT DO people notice? What do they miss? In the late 1990s, the social scientists Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons tried to make some progress on these questions by asking people to watch a two-minute movie, in which six ordinary people pass a basketball to one another. The simple task? To count the total number of passes. READ MORE >>
