This Is What Life Is Like Inside Assad’s Syria | VICE on HBO January 18
02 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Syrian Civil War
This Is What Life Is Like Inside Assad’s Syria | VICE on HBO January 18
02 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Syrian Civil War
The Phenomenal Growth of the World’s Middle Class May be the Most Important Story of our Time
01 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
In America, we usually don’t talk much about the Middle Class — we just assume that most everyone is in it. Except for a surprising number of billionaires, there isn’t much difference between being middle class or being wealthy, and most people simply described themselves as being middle class without giving it much thought. Historically, 85 to 90 percent of Americans have self-identified as middle class. Sixty percent is more usual today.
Gallup surveys show that only about 2 percent of Americans self-identify as “Upper” class. And we have lots of articles about the “shrinking U.S. middle class”, from the media or politicians. They usually forget to mention that the middle class in America is shrinking because more people are getting wealthier. (Economics is not a strong point for the Left)
But reaching the middle class is not just a class designation. Nor is it a matter of money. A…
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On the Dutch MP’s cartoon competition: blasphemy founded the Age of Enlightenment
01 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech
Speaking of the regressive left
01 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, politics - USA Tags: free speech, regressive left
Why the Northernmost Town in America Exists
01 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, urban economics
The Architect Of The Battle of the Somme – Douglas Haig
01 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Contagion: mapping the eradication of disease | The Economist
01 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, environmental economics, health economics Tags: The Great Escape, vaccines
Has real socialism ever been tried?
31 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: fall of communism, regressive left
Serena Williams: child vs. champion
31 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
Reader Jon sent a one-minute video of Serena Williams as a little girl (already great at tennis) and at the U.S. Open. John said “this is good for a commercial”, but it’s made by Nike and looks just like a commercial. Regardless, it’s really good. Jon’s take:
Caution: might make you tear up. This is good for a commercial. Nike used home movies of a 9-year-old Serena Williams with her father, Richard Williams, encouraging her and telling her to imagine she is at the US Open, with jump cuts of modern footage of the US Open. Toward the end she celebrates on court when she spots her father cheering in the stands. Her father was such a gentle, caring coach. To date, I think she’s won the US Open six times.
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