Nudging
FT reviews Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others by Robert Trivers, I’ll Have What She’s Having: Mapping Social Behaviour by Alex Bentley, Mark Earls and Michael J O’Brien, and Brain Bugs: How the Brain’s Flaws Shape [...]
Warren
The New York Times profiles Elizabeth Warren.
Losing Touch?
When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? David Frum makes his case here.
Spending
Supercommittee Tax Fight Is About Increasing Spending, not Reducing Deficits by Daniel J. Mitchell. Republicans are considering a surrender on taxes because they are afraid that a deadlock will lead to a sequester, which would mean automatic budget savings. And [...]
Good Sex
Teaching Good Sex by Laurie Abraham. Sex education in America was invented by Progressive Era reformers like Sears, Roebuck’s president, Julius Rosenwald, and Charles Eliot, the president of Harvard University. Eliot, according to Kristin Luker, author of the book “When [...]
Dead End
California’s Dead End Republicans by Steven Greenhut. Whenever I write and speak about California’s dire economic and political situation, I am met by people who demand answers. “We know the state is in a mess,” they say. “Why don’t you [...]