As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.

Not all private equity people are evil. Only some.

America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die. The most prominent zombie is the insistence that low taxes on rich people are the key to prosperity.

In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the idea that wages are a market price-determined by supply and demand, the same as the price of apples or coal. And it is for that reason, rather than the practical details, that the broader political movement of which the demand for a living wage is the leading edge is ultimately doomed to failure: For the amorality of the market economy is part of its essence, and cannot be legislated away.

Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.

Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias.