Being an American leftist on the fringes, in the socialist/internationalist vein, can be a lonely proposition, so it’s tempting to let lefty publications slide. But I simply have no patience for the parlor radicals at n+1, the post-Marxist (or whatever) band of literary types who deign to gift the world with their advanced commentary. Today, …
it was Brooks that broke me
Well, Brooks has gone and done me in. David Brooks says that there are two visions in the country, one held by liberals and Barack Obama and one held by conservatives and Mitt Romney. Brooks does Obama the service of actually waving in the direction of what he actually thinks. He then does Obama the …
still trying to get to existence
I’ll keep this brief. Awhile back I wrote a post about the controversial show Girls and the way we talk about it, and particularly Todd van der Werff and Alyssa Rosenberg’s considerations of sexist criticism of the show. Van der Werff has written a long extension of that conversation, adding and developing many of the issues at …
We’re Already in a Class War
Having read neither of the books themselves, I can’t say whether I agree with Felix Salmon’s review of Paul Krugman and Timothy Noah’s recent books as a review. But it’s always nice to see someone who is willing to name, in a national publication, the essential problem for our country: capture of our resources and …
the “Paleo diet” isn’t
Today io9.com, a website I generally enjoy, had an almost entirely credulous and positive take on the “Paleolithic diet” by George Dvorsky. The Paleolithic Diet claims that the reason for modernity obesity and unhealthiness is, essentially, the agricultural revolution; that we evolved to eat like our hunter-gatherer forebears and our current diet is toxic because …
Open Thread: It’s Real Love
Say hello to our new kitten, Suavecito:
It’s Still Aggregate Demand
I was very happy to see Krugman post today about the structural unemployment-education issue that I’ve been repeatedly flogging here. As usual, he’s got the goods: via Mark Thoma, the very cautious Dave Altig looks at recent studies and concludes that “we’ve been pretty sympathetic to structural explanations for the slow pace of the recovery. …