The Limbaugh Fluke

Which of these two events do you find more distasteful? 1.      Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a slut for her position on contraceptives. Or 2.      Activists are treating Fluke as a helpless victim who needs society’s protection against the harsh words of an entertainer. My interpretation of events is that…

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Is Economics a Real Thing?

I once worked with a woman who had a degree in economics. Her boyfriend drove her crazy by arguing that the entire field of economics could be boiled down to the notion of supply and demand. Everything else, he asserted, was an unnecessary complication of the obvious. It’s funny, but…

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