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I’ve got a post about GOP women up at Forbes right now: basically, I took a look at how GOP candidates fared with women voters. And interestingly, in this so-called year of the GOP woman, it was GOP...
View ArticleReally, it’s not funny
Two weeks ago, I joined much of the young American Left at the “Rally to Restore Sanity.” I didn’t travel down to Washington for the occasion; I’m not that much of a Daily Show devotee. I had meetings...
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via the voracious media-consumer bjkeefe, I’m watching this video now, Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow on the Rally. I won’t make any comments, as you already know my take on the event.
View ArticleGordon Brown, After the Fall
A post at Foreign Exchange on a Gordon Brown lecture/book launch I attended yesterday at NYU: The basic thrust of the book is that financial reform laws in individual countries are irrelevant as tools...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Expertise and Intelligence
There’s a fair bit of web chatter about Peter Baker’s magnum opus in the NYT Magazine on the Obama Administration’s economic policy failures, which doesn’t actually contain much discussion of economics...
View ArticleWhy I am not a SlutWalker
On Saturday, I am going to SlutWalk. I have decided to attend the rally, where some of the walkers will give speeches explaining why they’re there, but not the march. As someone worried that the...
View ArticleThe problem with Occupy Wall Street
As regular readers will know, I worry that the American left is preoccupied with culture at the expense of economics, more concerned with identity politics than it is with combating inequality. As...
View ArticleOn Charlie Hebdo and the culture of free expression
I’ve been trying to avoid writing about Charlie Hebdo, so I’ll keep this short. I won’t add to the debate about whether the cartoons were offensive to Muslims, or racist to France’s minorities, or just...
View ArticleDivided We Can Change the World
Recently, while in India, I met an economist named Deepti Sethi who told me about some research she’s doing into organizations advocating social change, like non-profits and activist campaigns. She and...
View ArticleWhat Men Must Do To End Violence Against Women
Last night, I attended a Reclaim the Night march here in Cambridge, against the sexual violence and wider gender discrimination that is sadly common on our campus and elsewhere. I gave a short speech...
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