Read Part I, Read Part III. When we left off last time, Goldberg’s book was just beginning. Here’s what happened in the States. Progressives in America approved heartily of Europe turning Red, […]
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Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg, Part I
Liberal Facism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change Re-issued in paperback, with a new afterword. by Jonah Goldberg Recommendation: buy a copy today, buy […]
Phil Jones and the Lack of Warming; Or, Die, Statistical Significance, Die
According to the stunning New York Times headline, which quoted climatologist Phil Jones, there has been no “statistically significant” global warming in the past 15 years. Just kidding! The Times forgot to […]
Alone and Frames by Loren D. Estleman
Alone Frames The first two in the Valentino Hollywood Mystery Series by Loren D. Estleman Recommendation: read. Estleman is best known for his hard-boiled Amos Walker detective series, all set in Detroit—of […]
The Mount Vernon Statement vs. The Manhattan Statement
Have you read the Mount Vernon Statement? It is meant to remind one of the Declaration of Independence or the Preamble to the Constitution. It is supposed to be a stirring, rousing […]
Phil Jones, I accept!
The other day, I asked Phil Jones and other climate scientists to rebuke some of their foaming-at-the-mouth colleagues for their inappropriate use of language. While I’m still awaiting a response—it should come […]
Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky
Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky Recommendation: read (buy here). (It’s Keynes Week here at wmbriggs.com!) The book’s tag-line is, “Why, sixty years after his death, John Maynard Keynes […]
Rumsfeld and Keynes on Probability
In 2003, ex-sailor and then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, said the following: As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are […]
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