The Wayback Machine: From Ten Years Ago: July 16-July 19, 2006
- Lies from Colin Powell http://www.bradford-delong.com/2006/07/lies_from_colin.html 2006-07-16: "But that's not what happened, is it? Powell and his chief-of-staff Wilkerson knew very well that what they were presenting to the U.N. was 'anything but an intelligence document'. It's no accident that Wilkerson calls his role in preparing the Feb. 14, 2003 U.N. speech 'the lowest point of my life'...
Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? (I Give the Washington Post Twenty Years Department)http://www.bradford-delong.com/2006/07/why_oh_why_cant_10.html 2007-07-19: Daniel Gross is unhappy that the Washington Post employs Michael Abramowitz and Charles Babbington... As I have said before, informing its readers about the state of the world is just not something that a young Washington Post reporter these days is taught to care about. And it shows.
Dana Milbank vs. Helen Thomas http://www.bradford-delong.com/2006/07/why_oh_why_cant_9.html 2006-07-18: Of Milbank's seven examples of the White House press corps not being 'quiescent and obsequious,' we have three softballs, two dodged questions because the press corps won't help each other, and two real questions that get answered...
Where Are the Heirs of Walter Lippman? http://www.bradford-delong.com/2006/07/where_are_the_h.html 2006-07-17: It is not clear to me whether things were ever any better.... Even Walter Lippman had his anti-particle: Walter Winchell. And for every I.F. Stone trying to tell truth about power (and occasionally falling victim to crazed conspiracy theorists), there were fifty reporters willing to do the bidding of a certain junior senator from Wisconsin. So where are the true heirs of Walter Lippman? And how do we build and organize institutions to give them the prominence and influence they deserve?
Leo Strauss Gives a Cheer for Right-Wing Principles: Fascist, Authoritarian, Imperial http://www.bradford-delong.com/2006/07/leo_strauss_giv.html 2006-07-17: Over at Balkinization, Scott Horton translates a letter from Leo Strauss to Karl Loewith...
Stupidest Man Alive II http://www.bradford-delong.com/2006/07/stupidest_man_a_1.html 2006-07-17
Incomplete and Partial Thoughts on Greg Mankiw's Updated "Lazear vs Krugman" http://www.bradford-delong.com/2006/07/incomplete_and_.html 2006-07-16: Is victory in the winner-take-all tournaments is due to luck, talent, or industriousness? If it is luck or talent, the 60% of me that is a social democrat thinks... we should think very seriously about powerful public policies that will level the distribution of income. Then the 20% of me that is a libertarian breaks its chains, comes running out of the cave... grabs the microphone and rants.... Now let's return the libertarian to its cave. There, there, everything will be all right. See? Just inside? Catalaxy. Zero government. Private order. A free society of associated autonomous producers.... I don't think that it's useful to characterize this mechanism for increasing inequality as 'a rise in the premium paid to the skills acquired through education.'
