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“The vast majority of Americans are not reading the Washington Post every day, and they are not following the intricate details of public policy debates,” Neil Bradley explains. “What are the things that most Americans are talking about? TV, music, and Hollywood have a tremendous impact on our culture. And that has a tremendous impact on politics.”
With his musings on happiness economics, popular public intellectual Will Wilkinson hopes to prove that freedom is the surest route to well-being—and, of course, that liberaltarianism is the fastest way to get there.
The films of Jean Luc Godard at the American Film Institute.
Did the Bear Stearns deal set the stage for a wave of bailouts? A former senior official at the Fed says yes.
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Erdogan To Obama: Strong Horse Or Weak Horse? 18 May 2013, 5:59 am
At a joint press conference at the White House on Thursday, President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told us what we already knew: They agree that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad “needs to go.” The problem, however, lies in the actual playing out of teamwork. Since the start of the civil war [...]Source: AFF Doublethink Online | Elisha Maldonado
Authoritarian Can’t Hide Embarrassing Story In The Internet Age 16 May 2013, 9:41 pm
Horses and powerful rulers have an odd relationship. Roman Emperor Caligula named his horse a consul. More recently, the horse of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov almost killed him. Wearing traditional national dress Turkmen, the authoritarian leader was thrown from his horse last month in a race held in Turkmenistan. He was apparently briefly knocked unconscious [...]Source: AFF Doublethink Online | Joseph Hammond