Liberal Talk Radio

If we can recast public financing of healthcare as a way to starve the rest of the beast, as Bob Packwood* sort of argues (if you squint) then there might be an opening to finally see it happen: So Americans have a choice. We can spend 40 percent of our G.D.P., and provide services like [...]

The indicators are here and the stats are in: [A] “counterintuitive” finding is more interesting, and thus more likely to get published, than an intuitive one. But maybe lots of our intuitive ideas are correct and the “counterinuitive” selection bias is obscuring that. Certainly this is a problem in punditry and (especially) magazine writing, where [...]

Contra Frank, in the coming Decade of Contrarianism, the time is obviously ripe for a Bus Rapid Transit opera . . . Conceptually Contrarian jumping-off point: The absurd resurrection and reevaluation of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s career.