A life in words

  • A Healthy Little Dose of Doom and Gloom (Plus Prophecies!)

    [Update: This editorial wasn’t really written by the guy I originally said it was written by. I’m not sure who actually wrote it, but they gave rights to freely distribute it, so we’re OK.] We’re going to call this Monstropolitan’s very first guest editorial, although the guest who wrote the editorial isn’t yet aware of…

  • Thus Quoth Kissinger

    Russia Blog is running a recent editorial from the International Herald Tribune in which Henry Kissinger and George Schultz discuss the past and prospects of Russian-Western relations. I thank these two former Secretaries of State for their level-headedness. Let’s cut the rhetoric and be forward-thinking. Read it here.

  • The Dark Bailout

    Via Greg Mankiw:

There is nothing I dread so much, as a division of the Republic into two great Parties, each arranged under its leader and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This in my humble apprehension is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.John Adams, Letter to Jonathan Jackson, 2 Oct 1780