From the monthly archives:

May 2003

Take Two Multinationals . . .

May 20, 2003

– Ram Ahluwalia has the lowdown on a new NBER study that reveals–SURPRISE!–that folks who work for multinationals in less developed countries do better than folks who don’t work for multinationals in less developed countries. Ram’s pulled out the most interesting figures. Good ammo in the sweatshop wars.

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Teeny Tiny Comment Box

May 19, 2003

– Some administrivia . . . Because every third comment I receive is a complaint about my comments software, I decided finally to repair the problem, which, for the most part, was simply the size of the text fields. This took some doing on my part as by now I had totally forgotten how I [...]

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Dorks on Parade

May 19, 2003

– No doubt if you should know about it, you know about it. But, anyway, Blogorama on Kalorama IV: this Thursday at the Rendevous Lounge (18th and Kalorama NW) at 7:00 or so.
Maybe I should just think of these announcements as a coordination device. Some people don’t want to come unless they know enough [...]

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Grotius to the Max

May 16, 2003

– My thinking about international relations remains hazy, but I felt there was something quite wrong about Martha Nussbaum’s essay about Grotius and the current international scene. My skeptical feeling, I believe, flows from my skepticism about the moral status of the nation state. I believe that there may be morally legitimate political units, and [...]

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Little Minds

May 9, 2003

– Julian has a good analysis of that ever-abused Emerson quote: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds…,” which, as it is usually used, is the last resort of the incoherent. (Julian is complaining, again, of the NRO crowd.)
I really love the quote, properly understood. (Go see it.) It’s about having the courage [...]

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X-Men and the Circumstances of Justice

May 6, 2003

– There is a massive rash of philosophical comic geekdom breaking out in the blogosphere over the arrival of the new X-Men movie. See, for example Matthew Yglesias and Jacob Levy. As I am a philosophical geek who bought his first issue of X-Men almost 20 years ago for I think $.65 (It had the [...]

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The Dissident

May 5, 2003

– Check out the great new campus publication produced by the Critical Review Foundation. 50,000 copies of the first issue has gone out to fancy schools, in an attempt to reach out to bright undergrads who rarely have a chance to hear ideas that fall anywhere outside of the center-left to radical-left range that dominates [...]

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Federal City vs. Chocolate City

May 1, 2003

– Washington, the District of Columbia, is the capital city of the wealthiest and most powerful nation (empire?) in the history of the known universe. It is a city that teems with entrepeneurs of expropriation, dandyfied lobbyists, scrubbed legislative aides from the hinterlands, scores of Lewinskys and Levys hyperventilating amidst the faux Roman grandeur of [...]

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