A Stitch in Haste

What better way to start summer than with the politics of zombie movies?

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If religious bigots really want to invoke libertarian arguments to legitimize their bigotry, then they better be prepared to be judged by real libertarians about the entire spectrum of libertarian issues.

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Either their brains, or their signatures…

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The Vice President visits a window factory.

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The Times' "Ethicist" channels George Costanza.

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What if the government tried to bail out stamp collectors?

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A Princeton economist explains why neoclassical economics is (supposedly) worthless. Supposedly.

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People are forgetting the difference between "regulation" and "criminology."

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Recently Paul Krugman wrote the following defense of unbridled Keynesian "stimulus" spending:
[I]f you believe that a surge in private spending would raise employment — and even the critics agree on that — it's very hard to explain why a surge of public spending wouldn't have the same effect.
Elsewhere, he dismissed these critics, butchering a famous [...]

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Thomas Friedman:
Landing at Kennedy Airport from Hong Kong was, as I've argued before, like going from the Jetsons to the Flintstones. The ugly, low-ceilinged arrival hall was cramped, and using a luggage cart cost $3. (Couldn't we at least supply foreign visitors with a free luggage cart, like other major airports in the world?) As [...]

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