By • Oct 08,2008

Iceland's meltdown

Take heart, Icelanders. Your savings may be vanishing like your glaciers, and you may soon be in hock to Russia for nearly half your GDP, but you have one of...

By • Oct 08,2008

Pretty much

This Onion piece just about sums up the Obama volunteers who heckle Washington commuters on the way to the Metro each morning. (Hat tip: JB)

By • Oct 08,2008

Mankiw's Proposal

I’ve argued with my more staunchly libertarian friends, both online and off, about the financial crisis and what can/should be done about it. Now I ask them: Would this plan...

By • Oct 08,2008

We cast him out!

Thinking about the reaction to Conor Friedersdorf’s original article on Sarah Palin, fealty to the Republican party is essentially a kind of nationalism. Which means it’s Orwell time: As nearly...

By • Oct 08,2008

Slamming George Soros is anti-semitic?

Now, I think anti-semitism is a terrible thing. I’m extremely sympathetic to the idea propagated by some that Israel controls the United States’s foreign policy is an anti-semitic idea. Around...