Tag Archives: Reads

NPR’s Book Concierge Our Guide To 2018’s Great Reads

What would you like to read? – Showing all books (319) – “Use the filters below to explore more than 300 titles NPR staff and critics loved this year. (You can also combine filters!) Want even more recommendations? Check out … Continue reading

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Weekend reads: Big is bad edition

Big is bad, part 1: Kafka, Coase, and Brandeis walk into a bar … There’s a quip in a well-known textbook that Nobel laureate Ronald Coase said he’d grown weary of antitrust because when prices went up, the judges said … Continue reading

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Weekend reads

Good government dies in the darkness. This article is getting a lot of attention on Wonk Twitter and what’s left of the blogosphere. From the abstract: We examine the effect of local newspaper closures on public finance for local governments. … Continue reading

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President Trump reads 'The Snake,' repurposed as anti-immigrant poem

CNN reports that President Donald Trump yesterday at the 2018 Conservative Political Action conference read the lyrics of an anti-immigrant song titled "The Snake," reverting to a campaign staple that he has used to criticize U.S. immigration policy. The song,… … Continue reading

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How Justice Thomas Reads the Constitution

In How to Read the Constitution, the Wall Street Journal published an excerpt of Justice Clarence Thomass remarks to the Manhattan Institute, including the following: [T]here are really only two ways to interpret the Constitution — try to discern as… … Continue reading

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