Xavier Sala-i-Martin is one of the world’s most well regarded growth and development economists. And this is his homepage.

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I swear, I thought that I was well past the point when anything excreted from the keyboard of NRO’s village idiot could surprise me anymore, but I’d clearly underestimated her, as she proves here PETER ARNETT [Kathryn Jean Lopez] MSNBC just lost a whole bunch of viewers: Peter Arnett praised the ministry of disinformation, among […]

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I realize that nobody ever took the “fair and balanced” line to be anything but a joke—and a pretty preposterous one at that—but at least Fox used to try to pretend that it was impartial with a straight face. Hypocrisy as the tribute vice pays to virtue, and all that. Well, no longer. Courtesy of […]

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Note: Update at end of post is important. Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. That’s one of the slogans of the totalitarian party ruling England in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and as John Lott critic Tim Lambert has discovered, also true of the Internet. Lambert found that […]

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A bit of rhetoric that’s getting a lot of play is that one shouldn’t voice reservations about the war, because we need to “support our troops.” That’s the language used by a pizza delivery man who stopped to berate a woman who had an anti-war sign in her yard, and by the trucker who drove […]

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audblog audio post I gave my talk on the role of think tanks in D.C. politics on Monday, and I thought it went fairly well. Here’s another snippet on why our media and our metaphors make clarity and brevity particularly important for libertarians.

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Your friend and mine, Sodomy, has been in the news quite a bit lately thanks to the Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas, for which the arguments heard yesterday were, oddly enough, oral. I’ve said my bit on that case elsewhere, but I want to note how odd I’ve always found it that the term […]

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Yet another addition to the ‘sphere: Mac Diva, undisputed queen of the lefty-blog comment sections, has launched a blog of her own.

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An old friend and fellow fellow from my Koch days, Rhys Southan, has just put together an entertaining parody advertisement for capitalism.

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Will had a great post a little while back on “optimal disenchantment,” where he asks, in effect, how unflinching we really want to be in the quest for truth. Aren’t there, after all, some illusions we could use? Brink’s thoughtful reply, though, makes clear that there are at least a couple of distinct senses of […]

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