Jason Alexander regales Larry with Seinfeld stories
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in television, TV shows
Nixon quits–36 years on
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Richard Nixon resigned the presidency 36 years ago today–the only American president to have done so.
He left the White House on August 9, 1974, to avoid certain impeachment and conviction. By then it had become clear that Nixon had ordered senior aides to cover up the Watergate scandal’s signal crime, the burglary in June 1972 at Democratic national headquarters.
As I write in Getting It Wrong, my new book about media-driven myths, forcing Nixon’s resignation “required the collective if not always the coordinated forces of special prosecutors, federal judges, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, as well as the Justice Department and the FBI.”
But in the years since 1974, the dominant popular narrative of the Watergate scandal has become the heroic-journalist meme, the widely held notion that the investigative reporting of two young, tireless reporters for the Washington Postled the way in bringing down
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November 9, 1841: Birth of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom. Part I
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Edward VII (Albert Edward; November 9, 1841 – May 6, 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India from January 22, 1901 until his death in 1910.
Edward was born at 10:48 in the morning on November 9, 1841 in Buckingham Palace. He was the eldest son and second child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He was christened Albert Edward at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, on January 25, 1842.
He was named Albert after his father and Edward after his maternal grandfather, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. He was known as Bertie to the royal family throughout his life. He was related to royalty throughout Europe.
As the eldest son of the British sovereign, he was automatically Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay…
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Monetary-Fiscal Interactions: Eric Leeper Interviewed by Jan Libich
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in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, financial economics, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: inflation, monetary policy, rational expectations
Rationality during an epidemic of unreason – Steven Pinker
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in economics of education Tags: philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left
More gender gaps
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in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
Lost on the Woke
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in applied price theory, Karl Popper, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: Anti-Science left, free speech, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left
US & German Atlantic Strategy 1939-1941
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in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War II
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