Is the middle class bad for democracy?
The middle class makes democracies work, in conventional thinking. Middle class citizens use […]
Is the Fed dead?
The Becker/Posner blog grimaces at the Federal Reserve’s lack of independence. Yes, says […]
ASJA awards
The ASJA awards for 2009 are formally announced. I was sorry to miss […]
Obama as Job
The New York Times has tweeted an interview with President Obama that will […]
The horror of typos
Here’s an odd bit from today’s Wall Street Journal, a paragraph from this […]
Weird comment of the day
“Print media is going the way of facial hair. It looks good, but […]
Andrew Brown wins the Orwell Prize
Andrew Brown, my friend and fellow Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellow, found out this morning […]
The emerging world of neuro-business
The way the brain evolved suggests that businesses will continue to become more […]
Some thoughts on evolution and cognition
I’m in Cambridge, England, attending a Templeton-Cambridge science and religion journalism seminar on […]
The Value of Money
Yesterday I listened to Colin Renfrew, the famed archaeologist, walk through a bit […]