November 2004

Eat up.

Here is the Economist column by Adrian Wooldridge (“Lexington”) I mentioned a few days ago. Demographic upshot:

Mr Bush’s optimistic message gave him a commanding advantage in pro-growth America. Joel Kotkin, a Los Angeles-based writer who knows as much about the grassroots economy as anyone, points to the close relationship between growth, both demographic and [...]

OK, enough public reason. Why not look at a picture of a panda bear!?

Since I started working at Cato, I’ve become more sensitive to the fact that folks often write it “CATO.” Now, this may be because of the the logo, which is all caps, but lots of organizations have logos in all caps, and people don’t write it that way. So I think folks must think CATO [...]

So, directly below you’ll find the book review that was apparently a little too saucy for Brainwash, having appeared there from some time Sunday evening to some time Monday morning. Conservative donors and all that, I suppose. (Do take note, if you’ve ever considered writing for Brainwash.) Please note that the foul, foul language is [...]

Tim Lee micturates upon Nick Gillespie’s semi-autobiographical work of armchair demography.
What do you think about Reason’s “cultural turn.” Personally, I enjoy reading Nick’s Reason better than Virginia’s, although Virginia’s did seem more like a serious magazine for serious people with serious thoughts, and thus I guess I found her version more intellectually edifying. But what [...]

This interesting (as always [that is, I want to have millions of Malcolm Gladwell's babies]) Malcolm Gladwell essay on personality tests comes down hard on the Myers-Briggs. Now, I think he’s right about everything he’s saying about personality. Yet it remains that the Myers-Briggs does tend to track some fairly deep and important regularities. For [...]

You will weep in . . . well, you will weep from something or other when you read this collection of Modern Political Thought Poetry by Beth Cohen.