Since most of the commenters to this blog (including my Dad) are left-wing extremists, I figured I’d better immediately share this view from the other end of the political spectrum that just landed in my email inbox: Dear Dubious Capitalist: I just wanted to tell you that for a professional writer, your smarmy, trying too-hard-to-be-clever, [...]
On the train ride back from Washington Tuesday night, I did some of the reading that Brad DeLong assigned me after my first attempt at writing about neoconservatism. The first thing I got out of Irving Kristol’s Fall 1995 Public Interest article on “American conservatism 1945-1965″ was that Brad was overdoing it when he said [...]
Yesterday afternoon, Karen Tumulty over at Swampland e-mailed to ask if I had anything to say about Toyota passing GM in global sales in the first quarter of 2007. I tried but I really couldn’t. Anybody who reads the business press has known for a couple of years that this was about to happen. Also, [...]
