I note that on 1/19/22 The Intelligent Economist released its annual list of the top 100 economics blogs.  Both Econospeak and Angry Bear, ...

The hare was a child so badly treated and offended by the other people because he had such long ears that he went off to live alone. When he...

 Should I not be posting on the ongoing threat by Putin against Ukraine that is current dominating the news? Nobody is talking about Kazakhs...

Illustration by Tom Seidmann-Freud In the beginning, none of the animals was endowed with intelligence. When they saw a hunter coming toward...

 A long time ago, sometime before the 2008 crash, prices of Brent crude oil and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude ran close to each other....

 An article about me and my wife, Marina, has just come out at the cover story at Madison Magazine, the alumni magazine of James Madison Uni...

 Tyler Cowen links to a an NBER working paper with an excerpt from the paper:  “ Under only the efficiency channel, the optimal minimum wage...

This is what new Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin said when he made an executive order on the first day of his term to ban school systems fr...

On January 13, the US Supreme Court, by a vote of 6-3, blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate.  The policy took the form of an e...

 Maybe. We have gotten so used to the idea that to the extent it is even meaningful it is flat at inflation rate of 2%, nobody talks about t...

  Adorno's metaphor of the "matadors of the culture industry" didn't fall out of the sky. Nearly four decades earlier -- s...

When Theodor Adorno referred to "one of those matadors of the culture industry," in his " Free Time " radio lecture, he ...

 It remains too soon to comment in detail on the current upheaval in Kazakhstan as it is simply impossible to figure out what is happening, ...

In a radio lecture he gave two and a half months before he died in 1969, Theodor Adorno explored the paradox that people do not know what t...

 Incoming GOP Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has just announced his choice for Secretary of Natural Resourxes, Andrew Wheeler, a longtime ...