Bad Ideas Flourish Because They Are In

So What Are The Effects Of Increasing Minimum Wages? Any Econ 101 Student Can Tell You The Answer: The Higher Wage Reduces The Quantity Of Labor Demanded, And Hence Leads To Unemployment.

Can We Break The Machine That Is Imposing Right-wing Radicalism On The United States? The Scariest Part Is That The Media Is Part Of That Machine.

Most People, I Suspect, Still Have In Their Minds An Image Of America As The Great Land Of College Education, Unique In The Extent To Which Higher Learning Is Offered To The Population At Large. That Image Used To Correspond To Reality. But These Days Young Americans Are Considerably Less Likely Than Young People In Many Other Countries To Graduate From College. In Fact, We Have A College Graduation Rate That's Slightly Below The Average Across All Advanced Economies.

There Are No Atheists In Foxholes And There Are No Libertarians In Financial Crises.

There's Nothing Magic About Spending On Tanks And Bombs Rather Than Roads And Bridges.