Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic):
Economics and Public Policy
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The High Cost of Liberalism, by Pete du Pont
WSJ: “Taxes too high? You ain’t seen nothing yet.”
Health Care Reform
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Obamacare’s Inevitable Logic, by John Stossel
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The Competition Cure
WSJ: “A better idea to make health insurance affordable everywhere.” -
Obama vs. Mathematics, by Jagadeesh Gokhale and Kent Smetters
Cato Institute: “Even a popular president like Barack Obama cannot win arguments against two forces: God and mathematics. While the president has openly shared his reverence for the former, he has decided to take on the latter. It’s a fight that he will lose.”
Math and Statistics
- Using Math to Keep Pint Glasses Full, by Carl Bialik
Miscellaneous
- Ghostly Companions, by Micheal Ybarra
WSJ: “Survivors of extreme situations—on Everest and elsewhere—credit the help of a ‘third man’ who is not there.” - In flight, from the Boston Globe’s “Big Picture” blogsite
Boston Globe: “Collected here are recent photographs of various flying machines in action or on display around the world.”
Political economy
- A Doctrine of No Retreat, by George Will