Author: Damir Marusic
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 07,2008

The Base Base

I’ve always found it apt when the everyman supporters of a political movement are called “the base”. As a coastal elitist snob, I often heap scorn on the base elements...

By • Oct 07,2008

Irrelevance

I don’t chime in too much when it comes to domestic politics and policy because I’m largely out of my depth. I’m a foreign policy guy by inclination, and I...

By • Oct 03,2008

Throwing in the Towel?

Is Charles Krauthammer calling it for Obama? Sure sounds like it: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Franklin Roosevelt that he had a “second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament.”...

By • Sep 29,2008

Making Sense

With the bailout compromise bill going down in flames in the House, I just want to highlight two very sensible paragraphs written by Jim Manzi over at The American Scene...