Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Mitch Landrieu: Transcript of Address on Confederate Monuments: "Thank you for coming... http://pulsegulfcoast.com/2017/05/transcript-of-new-orleans-mayor-landrieus-address-on-confederate-monuments

...The soul of our beloved City is deeply rooted in a history that has evolved over thousands of years; rooted in a diverse people who have been here together every step of the way–for both good and for ill.

Paul Krugman: @paulkrugman: "Profiles in no courage... Live from the Republicans' Self-Made Hell)

J. Bradford DeLong (1998): Robber Barons:

First draft October 13, 1997; second draft January 1, 1998.

I. Introduction

'Robber Barons': that was what U.S. political and economic commentator Matthew Josephson (1934) called the economic princes of his own day. Today we call them 'billionaires.' Our capitalist economy--any capitalist economy--throws up such enormous concentrations of wealth: those lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time, driven and smart enough to see particular economic opportunities and seize them, foresighted enough to have gathered a large share of the equity of a highly-profitable enterprise into their hands, and well-connected enough to fend off political attempts to curb their wealth (or well-connected enough to make political favors the foundation of their wealth).

A Non-Sokratic Dialogue on Social Welfare Functions: Hoisted from the Archives from 2003:

Glaukon: 'Professor!'

Agathon: 'Professor! Good to see you. Getting coffee?'

Glaukon: 'Yes. I'm teaching. I find that teaching is always and everywhere a caffeine phenomenon.'

Agathon: 'I tend to find that teaching is usually a bagel phenomenon myself. What are you going to teach them?'

Live from La Farine: NAIL ‘EM UP!!!! Methinks it is time to go reread Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men again...

Molly Ball: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/how-sarah-palin-created-donald-trump/424911: "Think what the [Republican] establishment was already, at that point...

...doing to Palin. The GOP elites had plucked her from relative obscurity, largely for her superficial characteristics, then mocked her for all the things she didn’t know. They took her to Neiman Marcus for an image makeover on the party credit card, then leaked word of it to the press to make her look like a greedy, starstruck hick. They expected her to be a docile pawn—but she went rogue.