I think this one year old brilliant as usual post by Noah Smith is well worth another read. I googled [noah smith mud moats] when I ran into a mud…

…blog. Well, I stopped about a quarter of the way through. It’s not worth my time or yours, and I briefly want to tell you why. For over a hundred…

…leisure class values: Under this common-sense barbarian appreciation of worth or honour, the taking of life — the killing of formidable competitors, whether brute or human — is honourable in…

…due to trade, but also largely due to the increase in the share of consumption of services and increased productivity. Or in a picture which is worth a thousand words,…

…good. At the risk of being labeled a billionaire’s stooge, I think all of this is worth doing. Societies need lots of abilities that aren’t found in books, and lots…

…creation of wealth. Instead it is the yardstick, imposed by capital, for measuring the worth of all that creation. Why? To maintain the already created value as value. The danger…

…worth more than the votes of voters in populous states and twice as much as the votes of the voters in the more populous states. States electors are allotted per…

…administration announced Friday a 25 percent tariff on $1.3 billion worth of French handbags, cosmetics and soaps in retaliation for a digital services tax on U.S. internet giants, but said…

…Wisconsin, although Milwaukee has not yet come in.  And the county Prairie du Chien is in, Crawford Trump is leading 4620 to 3953. But, for what it is worth, in…

…is historians, and it is worth considering why. . . . More fundamentally, however, historians stress the importance of contingency, that things really could have gone another way. The decisions…