The Stopped Clock

First, a word in defense of Thomas Friedman (and his taxi drivers). Although he has the human tendency to seek points of view that reaffirm...

My last post resulted from a search in which I was looking for general information about the cost of law, business and medical school, in r...

It's a couple of years old, but I just came across this one .... After advising law students about how they should get into the best la...

If you read Samuelson's column, you know that he's not particularly interested in analyzing the issues of the day, so much as he is...

Perhaps inspired by a burning desire to do a "gotcha" over the historic "Mac vs. PC" ads, where a guy who needed a shav...

Why it only seems like yesterday that a Republican presidential nominee was lecturing us that it would be inappropriate to pay even a penny...

I think it's reasonable to infer that the baby isn't actually crying because of the Tusken Raider, but....

Right-wing ideologue S.E. Cupp recently challenged left-wing ideologue Michael Moore, Mass shootings are also down... yes they are! It i...

It's probably not worth paying attention to Robert Samuelson on the budget deficit as he has little to no regard for consistency betwee...

Ross Douthat is concerned that "loneliness" may be behind an increase in the suicide rate among middle aged men... a classic cas...

Leave it to the wealthy of Manhattan ....

I understand that some lawyers, probably many or most, simply don't know any better - somebody calls them up promising to generate more...

In response to an essay about rich kids doing well in school , McArdle questions whether the answer truly lies in enriched environments, Bu...

A few days ago , Sean Reardon shared an observation which he suggested may not surprise you, "the children of the rich perform better ...

Apparently Apple is in talks to do... something in along that line . It has had some niche successes with having auto makers use tablets in...

Courtesy of Sandra Day O'Connor, Scott Lemiuex shares his memories of a horrible series of Supreme Court decisions. And, again, it’s n...

I have sympathy for the argument that Apple has a history of being something of a control freak with its hardware, and that its tendency to...

As David Stockman makes the rounds to promote his new book, I caught a few of his bon mots on government intervention in the economy. He ...

When you hear about an organization that calls itself the "Bipartisan Policy Center", what's the first question that comes to...

Paul Waldman asks an interesting question - a lot of online content comes in the form of lists as a form of link baiting, but lists are al...