Economics is just Religion for the bookish

Subtitle: It’s best to pick one that’s not so obnoxious.
One of the reasons I gave up economics (besides the math) was that it resembles religion far too much. It is a matter of belief, of strongly held belief, that brooks no wavering, no possibility of changing one’s mind. When I studied it in high school [...]

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Travel reading: Atwood & Klein

Terminal A at PHL is has plenty of light, even if it has that wonderful brutal exposed, pockmarked concrete aesthetic that only a Stalinist could love; PHL Terminal A East needs Carson Kressley.
I have another four hours to wait, though I have plenty on interesting books, like The Blind Assassin which I’ve been working my [...]

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Discontinued

The labels that hang just below the price tags on the shelves of the store say much about the three things that both Islamic fundamentalists and some of the cutting edge ideologues of the West fear. Islamic fundamentalism, indeed all religious fundamentalism (Christians in America haven’t yet begun to attack the temples of their targets, [...]

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