Unqualified Offerings

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Via Yglesias, Economist Michael Mandel of Business Week offers a provocative slideshow whose thesis is that the entire decade from 1997-2007 was, in real economic terms, a lost decade. I don’t know if it suffices as [...]

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A lot lower.

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I like the ingenuity of Julian’s argument that “His stardom in the conservative movement is, paradoxically, its own lone rationale. Conservatives, self-declared foes of postmodernism, have finally produced the ultimate postmodern icon.” I suspect, though, that [...]