links for 2009-06-26 Felix Salmon: are you saying that the web has increased the amount of fun that people can have without spending money, or at least has increased the nation’s aggregate fun-to-spending ratio? Victor Hugo on John Brown: For — yes, let America know it, and ponder on it well — there is something more terrible than Cain slaying Abel: It is Washington slaying Spartacus! DeLong: Let Us Now Praise Right Wing Hacks (David Broder/Washington Post Edition) Ezra Klein: The Truth About the Health Insurance Industry Eric Rauchway: An engine of state, not of law Brad DeLong: PSAT Brad DeLong: Yet Another Gregg Easterbrook Train Wreck Brad DeLong: One Trouble With the The Trouble With Diversity John Quiggin: Refuted economic doctrines #9: Real Business Cycle Theory Cosma Shalizi: Graphs, Trees, Materialism, Fishing William Butler Yeats: Among School Children