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By AF Editors • Nov 10,2009

Do carrots feel pain?

Natalie Portman is giving up eggs and milk. She writes on HuffPo: Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist. I’ve always...

By AF Editors • Nov 10,2009

Mother Jones agrees with National Review!

Kevin Drum praises Jonah Goldberg for resisting the impulse to call Nidal Malik Hasan a terrorist. A traitor? A murderer? Sure. But not a terrorist. The strange thing is that...

By AF Editors • Nov 02,2009

The man who predicted the financial crisis, Part III

I’m not an aggressive consumer of financial journalism, so it has to be something of a coincidence that I’ve come across three separate items that chronicle the dark predictions of...

By AF Editors • Nov 02,2009

The man who predicted the financial crisis, Part II

In the mid-1990’s, Yale economist Robert Shiller predicted the dot-com bubble would burst. In 2005, Shiller predicted the housing bubble would burst. Why? In the wake of the dot-com crash,...

By AF Editors • Nov 02,2009

The man who predicted the financial crisis, Part I

The weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal profiled John Paulson, whose firm made $15 billion by systematically betting against the value of American homes. Paulson himself took home $4...

By AF Editors • Nov 02,2009

A liberal dollop of irony

From the lead column in last week’s New Yorker: The market for news is narrowing down to people who need an ideological fix. Of course, that comment was directed at...

Author: AF Editors

Do carrots feel pain?

Mother Jones agrees with National Review!

The man who predicted the financial crisis, Part III

The man who predicted the financial crisis, Part II

The man who predicted the financial crisis, Part I

A liberal dollop of irony