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Book Review by the One Handed Economist

…French student and a German student swap “institutions of lunch” or “institutions of greetings.” What happens next? How does that change people’s interactions? How does it spill over to other…

Book Review

…kill men but white men weren’t anxious to see a gun in my hands. They didn’t want to see me spill white blood. They said we didn’t have the discipline…

Joe Barton: the Indispensable Man

…is a member of the steering committee that decided to keep the policy. Are Republicans so beholden to Big Oil that they will actually override rules they reaffirmed four months…

Nation at war

…Gulf.” It was a reminder that, more than half a century ago (when it was called the Anglo-Persian Oil Company), the giant oil corporation now despoiling the Gulf of Mexico…