Here is a list of articles that I have been reading, videos that I have been watching, and podcasts that I have been listening to lately:
Polls Say: Democrats Risk a Midterm Beating Over Obamacare
George Will – What LBJ Wrought
Quoting from this article, “In 1964, 76 percent of Americans trusted government to do the right thing “just about always or most of the time”; today, 19 percent do.” (source: Pew Research)
Vaccines are not associated with autism: An evidence-based meta-analysis
I will resist the temptation to utter the (vastly overused phrase), “The science is settled”…
Podcast: Tech entrepreneur Marc Andreesen on Bitcoin as well as the future of the world order
Don’t Silence Graduation Speakers
Net Neutrality Nonsense
Quoting from this article, “Living in constant fear of hypothetical worst-case scenarios—and premising public policy upon them—means that best-case scenarios will never come about.”
Advice for graduates from AEI President Arthur Brooks…
Language and Morality: Gained in translation
“A report published last month found that when moral dilemmas are posed in a foreign language, people become more coolly utilitarian.”
My Commencement Speech to Rutgers’ Geniuses: Go Forth and Fail
“Greetings, Class of 2014. So Condoleezza Rice was too offensive for you. Just wait until Monday morning. Did you learn how to spell KFC?”
Wealth Effect: How Summer Can Change Your Future
Video: Glenn Reynolds on the Future of Higher Education & How Kids are Getting Wise to Student Loan Debt
Today’s #Dailychart is our new measure of corporate nationality. This week the French government extended its powers to block foreign takeovers in “strategic” industries, following an offer for parts of Alstom by America’s General Electric. But just how French is Alstom? We have calculated the “domestic density” of selected companies…”
Angling to Be the MasterCard of Bitcoin
Andy Kessler makes sense of bitcoin in particular and financial services in general…
Podcast: The Three Hardest Words
Freakonomics on the importance of admitting that you don’t know when in fact you do not know!