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Maybe the Best Thing I’ve Read on Health Care Reform
The other day a commenter recommended David Goldhill’s article on health care …
Can Americans Handle Shopping for Health Care?
Apparently they can: Consumer-driven health (CDH) products [i.e., high-deductible health plans relying …
Reading “Caritas in Veritate”: Notes on Chapter Three
The central themes of this chapter are the nature of gift and …
Pigovian Moralism
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry has a very sharp post up at the Scene that …
Reading “Caritas in Veritate”: Notes on Chapter Two
I suppose it’s around this point that George Weigel started going wild …
How Not to Criticize an Encyclical
Via Henry Karlson, I see that one Daniel Indiviglio, of The Atlantic’s …
From the Department of Potentially Misleading Facts and Figures
So everyone is blogging about this chart, which was pulled together by …
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Shorter George Weigel
The only parts of the Pope’s new encyclical that really matter are …
Fun With Numbers, Food Snobbery Edition
In lieu of a proper post on the subject, let me just …
So I Know This Isn’t the Best Example, But…
by JL Wall Just so we’re clear: Congress deciding to de-regulate an …
So, How’s That Recovery Going?
Via von at Obsidian Wings, here’s a chart:
Wanted: One Biden Decoder Ring Refresher Course in Math-Speak
Ten blogger bucks to any math/econ geeks out there who can tell …
Fear the Cartoon Libertarian
Responding to this post and recalling an earlier comment of mine from …
Riding It Out
This is utterly brilliant: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x9XZKbP-BI&feature=player_embedded] Greg Mankiw, who knows more about math …
Freedom’s Underside, Pt. III
by JL Wall E.D. Kain, on Iraq: But that should call in …
True Sentence of the Day
We will never get the money out of politics until we get …
Phase 3: Profit
David Brooks’s column on GM’s “restructuring” addiction has him at his snarky …
