Archive for April 2, 2010

Jaime Escalante’s Example to which few have responded

April 2, 2010

Andrew, it’s just not going to happen. (I’m writing this in response to Andrew Coulson’s piece in the WSJ today, Escalante Stood and Delivered. It’s Our Turn.) Andrew, “Our Turn” is just never going to be. Only a tiny few will ever respond in their turn, if at all, to Escalante’s example. Instead, what works, [...]

On the Tea Party Opposition to Obamacare and the Libertarian Opposition to Global Warming

April 2, 2010

In regard to the first of these, the Senate health care reform bill,  Atul Gawande writes, in the New Yorker of April 5, “The major engine of opposition remains the insistence that health-care reform is unaffordable….In 1965, health care consumed just six per cent of U.S. economic output; today, the figure is eighteen per cent. [...]


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