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Rising Tensions in the Korean Peninsula

Ever since the sinking of a South Korean warship earlier this year, tensions on the Korean peninsula have been steadily escalating. The culmination of...

Cartooning: Fiscal Austerity

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Orszag, Progressivism, and Public Sector Pay

Sam makes some fair points, but I don't think Wilkinson was saying that anyone in general can get rich on Wall Street now that Washington is...

Peter Orszag, Co-Optation, and Progressivism

Check out Will Wilkinson's post on Peter Orszag's disappointing decision to cash in at Citigroup. First Wilkinson suggests that this sort of co-optation of government...

Weighing In: The Sin of Starving?

I have two points to make in response to Alastair's most recent post -- first, that I'm happy that he wrote it, because the issue of...

The Sin of Saving

A year ago, during the wake of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to lambaste the greedy. Today, however, the moral pendulum has swung...

Both Class and Race

In an interview with Stephen Colbert about her upcoming book, The History of White People, Princeton University History Professor Nell Irvin Painter was asked,...

Weighing In: Is Affirmative Action a Poverty Relief Program?

In their exchanges, both Pete and Sam seem to accept the rather odd idea that affirmative action exists primarily to benefit the poor. For example,...

Weighing In: Class-Based Affirmative Action Good, But Arguments Against Race-Based Affirmative Action Still Bad

Peter Bozzo has posted a very thorough reply to my reply to his column which argued that we should replace race-based affirmative action with...

Weighing In: Race-Based Affirmative Action is Failing Our Poorest Students

Sam Barr has responded to my column in last Wednesday’s Crimson with an analysis that ultimately comes out in favor of race-based affirmative action....