Showing posts with label Jonathan Chait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jonathan Chait. Show all posts
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Jon Chait has to be pranking us?

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I say this because of this  review he posts of a book that seems deeply ahistorical : The new right-wing book of the moment is American B...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Chait versus Delong

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Brad Delong has a very nice reply to Jon Chait's latest column .  I think that any reasonable analysis of tuition versus professorial s...
Friday, May 4, 2012

A truly remarkable piece of misreading

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To some degree we've all been guilty of hearing what we expected to hear rather than what was said. At the risk of belaboring the obviou...
Monday, August 8, 2011

My disconnect with Jon Chait

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Let me begin with Jon Chait being one of my favorite writers, a must-read, and a person with whom I agree > 90% of the time. I think tha...
Sunday, July 3, 2011

Too much silliness, too little time

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I'm in the middle of a busy weekend, so I can't do justice to Brooks recent education column and Jonathan Chait's affectionate ...
Saturday, July 2, 2011

Jonathan Chait -- now to the right of David Brooks on Education

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For those keeping track, Jonathan Chait has now chastised both David Brooks and the National Review's Jim Manzi for being too moderat...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

In the center, the National Review. On the right, the New Republic

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Jim Manzi has an excellent column discussing proposed teacher evaluation metrics from a business perspective, a column that raises some of ...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Depressing thought of the day

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From Jon Chait : Basically, the optimal number of Fox News-like propaganda outlets is zero. But I suspect the next most optimal number is tw...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Jonathan Chait disapproves of a liberal journalist's flip-flop on unions

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In today's TNR : New York has a mordantly funny piece about the effort by staffers at Harper's to unionize. The saga begins with g...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

More on owning preperty to vote

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Commenter David made the point : This criticism always sounds a little hollow--when people talk about interpreting the constitution 'as ...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

What happens if you have a mortgage?

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Jon Chait talks about a new idea from Tea Party Nation : Tea Party Nation Judson Phillips thinks the franchise should be taken away from ren...
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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Education Reform

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I want to very quickly return to first principles. When Mark and I began discussing tenure reform , it was in the context of a "crisis...
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Apparently we've reached the goalpost-moving stage of the game

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We all knew the case for incentive pay for teachers. The argument was simple and it made a lot of sense: teachers' unions and tenure lim...
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

An experiment in blogging -- the conclusion

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When assessing a statement, sometimes it's useful to rephrase it in a more general way and see how well it holds up. I tried that with a...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Was I too tough on Seyward Darby?

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We've recently had a huge uptick in viewers. This is great (and I'm tremendously appreciative), but I do have to remind myself most ...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

One reason to look forward to the Republicans retaking Congress and the White House

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At least liberals can be happy again .
Thursday, September 9, 2010

Strange Bedfellows

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(where your intrepid blogger sides with Robert Samuelson, gives Ray Fisman a break and wonders what in the hell happened to Jonathan Chait...
Friday, July 9, 2010

Speaking for the unhinged

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Jonathan Chait dismisses critics of proposed education reform as 'unhinged.' Speaking as one of the whackjobs, here's the sort ...
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Monday, April 26, 2010

In games of perfect information, bluffing is a really bad idea

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But that seems to be the Republican strategy on financial reform. Jonathan Chait has the details : So wait. Republicans think they can limit...
Friday, April 9, 2010

Chait on careers in journalism

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I had some posts up earlier (see here and here ) on how economic changes had affected the career options for writers of fiction. Over at Th...