Month: January 2013

I don’t know why everyone is going around Washington DC saying that Elliott Abrams is an anti-Semite. Frankly, I think it’s preposterous. If people accused him of doing unspeakable things to goats behind the big...

Woody Allen is funny. If you see an American abroad carrying an easel and some paints, he could be a CIA operative. And a good one, too. I am only learning about Aaron Swartz now that he has hanged himself. I don’t know if...

The problem with societies that have massive income inequality isn’t just a matter of fairness. It’s a matter of functionality. In the 18th Century, French peasants really had no hope of improving their lives or the...

. {Update} Original title: Al-Jazeera Interview of Activist Noam Chomsky Review: Al Jazeera interviews linguist and activist Noam Chomsky (Digital Journal) – Chomsky is no champion of Obama, far from it. He describes Obama...

Look, like pretty much everyone else, I’ve been wrong about a few things in the debate about the platinum coin, but I was right on the main things. The White House, the Treasury Department, and the Federal Reserve have...