this is definitely worth a watch.
i saw it a couple of weeks ago and since then have gone back to it a couple of times. frum just seems to make a lot of sense, and his crticism of rush limbaugh, mark levin and other hysterical reactionaries is spot on.
david brooks may be getting a run [...]
there’s this short documentary from bill moyers, and this one from frontline, which as always, comes through.
part of the beauty of politics is that it offers the potential to reduce the very personal into cold, reasoned calculations, which usually revolve around money. perhaps this doesn’t strike everyone as something beautiful, but it allows decisions to be [...]
russ roberts over at econtalk has a great conversation with time columnist justin fox about his new book, the myth of the rational market.
listen to the whole hour, it’s worth it because it complicates any easy answers on what to do about the great crash of 2007-08.
chris anderson, editor of Wired magazine, has put his money where his mouth is and released his new book for free on itunes.
anderson’s work is about how a small percentage of users paying for content will subsidize the rest of us, who will get the content we want for free. an example is the current [...]
As the country picks itself up from its latest financial spill, it’s vital to consider the assumptions that led people to act the way they did, and to update those assumptions as we move forward.
Here Yale professor Robert Shiller examines the idea that markets “know,” like some omnipotent being, and therefore can never be wrong. [...]
In this piece from NPR’s On The Media, Nate Silver (of 538) discusses the framing of the health care reform debate by both sides. It’s worth a listen but not entirely compelling radio (if Bob Garfield or Brooke Gladstone had been there, maybe the story’d be different).
There was, however, an idea towards the end that [...]
david brooks’ column this week lays out neatly the feelings i and many others have about what’s going on in the country.
brooks sounds like the classic cynic — he wants to believe humans can be more, but he’s seen too much evidence to the contrary. in this way, he serves as the perfect bridge [...]
I had the brief pleasure of meeting Rick Santelli when I toured the Chicago Board of Trade last year as part of an advanced economics reporting class at the Medill School of Journalism. I was much more of a neophyte to financial wizardry then, and had trouble keeping up with the mile-a-minute mind of Santelli. [...]
the los angeles times has an article today on Lockheed Martin’s efforts to lobby the Obama administration to purchase more F-22 raptors:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-jets11-2009feb11,0,165351.story
the argument for doing so, according to Lockheed’s general manager, is that these jobs are “shovel ready,” which is a chichi way people now describe a project that has everything but the funding (or logic?) to [...]
this is one of the best parts of the weekend: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec08/sgyear_12-26.html
now normally, david brooks of the new york times is sitting in michael gerson’s chair, but gerson, a presidential historian, is a fine substitute.
shields and brooks obviously admire and respect one another, and their disagreements always give off more light than heat. if you only have [...]
