- So you want my opinion (as an economist)? Scott Sumner, EconLog
- Don’t Let Doubts About Blockchains Close Your Mind Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg View
- Hayek, Radner, and Rational-Expectations Equilibrium David Glasner, Uneasy Money
- Beautiful art from the Armenian diaspora Avedis Hadjian, Le Monde Diplomatique
Month: May 2018
Can you spot the most important information in this title?
The Diplomat has a piece up with the following title: “Russia’s Sole Aircraft Carrier to Be Fitted With Advanced New Air Defense System.”
The author of the piece goes on to wax poetic about the advanced new air defense system, but that’s not the most important information being conveyed. It’s the fact that Russia – Russia – has a single aircraft carrier.
Here is Popular Mechanics on countries and their aircraft carriers.
Nightcap
- China’s Christianity problem (and Islam too) Ian Johnson, NY Times
- An Indian Merchant in Marseilles, 1792 Blake Smith, the Appendix
- The Island Where France’s Colonial Legacy Lives On Maddy Crowell, the Atlantic
- The Ugly Critique of Chick-Fil-A’s Christianity Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg View
“The staying power of ‘Citizen Kane'”
That’s the title of my Tuesday column over at RealClearHistory. An excerpt:
The relevant socio political commentary is more interesting, in part because people today still use the film to attack media moguls they don’t like (such as Fox News’ Rupert Murdoch). One narrative about the film’s sociopolitical impact even likens the film to a subtle anti-fascist, and pro-war, production because of the attention it draws to the immense power media moguls wield, and the incentive structures they face (and produce). This argument has at least some bite to it, as one of America’s most powerful media moguls in the 1940s, William Randolph Hearst, refused to give the film any sort of advertisement in any of his many publications. This blackballing on the part of the powerful led, of course, to the Citizen Kane’s relative flop at the box office.
Read the rest, baby!
Notes On Liberty 