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After six months offline, Economic Principals site has returned to life. Betweentimes, EP has been appearing on Substack since March [ ]
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Settling UP : End of an Era
This is the final weekly edition of Economic Principals. A new monthly version will commence Sunday June 2, and thereafter arrive [ ]
In Time of War, Prepare for Peace: A wise assessment by a veteran Mideast correspondent.
The public message that Biden delivered to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the part the world heard, was crystal clear. [ ]
What Americans Don’t Get about Putin: Continuity in Russia is obvious, but there have been important changes there as well.
To remind myself of the hatred I felt for the Soviet Union while it existed, I re-read last month Smiley’s [ ]
Looking ahead: Get ready for a long five years.
So Joe Biden is sticking with his bid for a second term. Labor Day was the president’s last chance to [ ]
Big Myth Stories: and narrower forms of argument.
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by [ ]
Wishing Won’t Make It So: But thinking out loud might make a difference.
What are the chances that Joe Biden will take himself out of the 2024 presidential campaign, perhaps with a Labor [ ]
Mentioned in Dispatches, and Photographed Too: A wide-ranging photo essay by Mariana Cook and Robert Solow about what economists study.
It defies credulity to say that Robert M. Solow most recent book is his best book to date, but, at [ ]
Alarms and Excursions: The biggest loser in the “Russia hoax” story is the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal
This final edition contains two paragraphs (both in bold), because the newsletter’s bulldog (subscriber) edition stopped one sentence short of [ ]
A Pulitzer Prize Mystery: What happened to The Washington Post’s “Road to War” series
When the Pulitzer Prizes for journalism were announced last week, the marquee Public Service Award went to the Associated Press, [ ]