I am in favor of government efforts to help the small minority of people for whom the escalator does not work. What infuriates me is the characterization of the great mass of affluent America as a victim of "middle-class squeeze" or some similar phony ailment.
What We Can Learn From Canada: Tyler Cowen looks at queue jumping in the Canadian health care system.
[ 09/21 4:51 AM ]
Have you ever thought about learning economics? Well think no longer, Arnold Kling's Learning Economics is out. Reason's Ron Bailey says: "In the 20th Century, a couple of generations learned sensible economic policy from Henry Hazlitt's classic Economics in One Lesson. In the 21st Century, we are fortunate to have Arnold Kling's astute and highly readable update."
[ 09/16 8:38 AM ]
Last month, before Rathergate, Fred Turner wrote: "What is now happening is that rather swiftly a new Public is forming, self-organizing around Google and link lists and blog chatrooms. And it will demand a new Res Publica." How right he was.