Oh this is interesting.  In British politics, what makes an opposition leader effective?  The argument here is that they are all good teachers, judged to be "the essential qualification to be a...

The EU gets a lot of flak, and not all of it is deserved.  But sometimes the ability of the bloc to avoid confronting hard choices really deserves condemnation.  

This piece really gets at...

I've been meaning to read this piece since it came out last spring and I found the time to do so today.  

It's a defense of the idea of "economic dignity" as the main logic of economic policy....

Something of a rant:

Where do "radical secularists" come from?  White conservative Christians seem quite worried about these people, and their persecuting ways.  It seems to be the case that in...

End of week links, for your Friday evening, because you really don't have anything else to do.  You're welcome!

This is one post in a series of interesting posts on Augustine’s “afterlife”...

Sir Walter Scott reviews Jane Austen’s Emma: 

[A] style of novel has arisen, within the last fifteen or twenty years, differing from the former in the points upon which the interest hinges...

Those of us who are academics, I suspect, got into this business because we loved what we were doing.  It was fascinating and gripping.  Sometimes it was painful and hard and difficult in many ways...

An interesting review of Piketty’s new book, fairly extensive and highlighting something I’ve noted too, the new opening, that Piketty (but not only Piketty) represents, of economics scholarship to...

Welcome to March, if "welcome" is the right word.

Some of this is platitudinous, and some of this is inane, but some of this was very useful, at least for me, both in introducing new ideas...