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Max Novendstern

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Weighing In: America Is Rich, Continued

Paul doesn't know what I'm talking about: I’m a little bit unclear what you mean by public-wealth.  Are you defining private-wealth as rich people and...

Here Is Why America Is So Rich

America is the richest country in the world. Karl Smith suggests three reasons why: I am going to go pretty conventional on this one and say...

Harvard Blogging Heads, Issue 1

Paul Schied and I discuss Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity and whether Harvard students can be Tea Party members. [vimeo 16832774 w=400 h=300]Harvard Blogging...

How To Write About the Tea Party, Continued

In my last post, I chided Harvard writers for the way they tend to write about the Tea Party. I said that our focus...

Our Moment

I’d like to believe that there’s a place in our politics between caricature and indifference -- between judgement (ie, praise, censure, etc), on the one...

Marty Peretz and the Intent/Effect Principle

Harvard University is a private institution with a private set of needs, among them financial needs and the ever-present need to remain true to...

How Not To Write About Policy (a response to Dylan Matthews)

Dylan Matthews* has a post up on his blog called “How Not To Write About Policy” -- it's a takedown of an essay by Mark...

Geek Power

Here's Bill Gates from a Wired magazine interview about the state of computer hacking: If he were a teenager today, he says, he’d be hacking biology....

For the New School Year

Here's Teddy Roosevelt talking to some undergrads at the University of Paris in 1910: It is well if a large proportion of the leaders in any...

Are payday loans like unprotected sex?

Sometimes you read a Tyler Cowen post and you think to yourself, simply: Did he really just say that? Here's Cowen on payday loans...