Ten Years Ago…

30Nov08

Here’s some more stuff by Matthew Ygelsias and Ezra Klein about the time sensitive nature of being a successful blogger that I discussed earlier.
Basically the conclusion is that, in line with Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, that time is often an important factor in success. Bill Gates had tremendously unique access to information about computers from [...]

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Tags: Dot.coms, Ezra Klein, Generational Success, Malcom Gladwell, Matthew Yglesias, Outliers

Which “We”?

06Nov08

Here is Ezra Klein on how no single group won the Election for Obama.
It’s only 3:40pm, and I have already read perfectly plausible arguments asserting that labor, young people, women, blacks, Hispanics, and white voters provided Obama his crucial margin. And you know what? They’re all right! If you subtracted enough points among any of [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama, Ezra Klein, Mark Penn

Real Americans Vote For Winners

13Oct08

Here’s Ezra Klein on the prospect of young professional whites and minorities uniting to elect Barack Obama
A couple older writers have asked me what happens if Obama wins the election and loses the white working class, and seemed confused by my reply that “he becomes president.” The emergent post-McGovern coalition uniting the professional class with [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama, Ezra Klein

Olympics Boycott 2008

14Apr08

Here is Ezra Klein discussing Democratic Candidates coming to around support a partial boycott of the Chinese Olympics
I can’t figure out what the candidates promising, or sorta-promising, to boycott the Summer Olympics think they’re achieving. On the one hand, concern for human rights violations in China could so concern you that you’d apply enormous [...]

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Tags: Beijing Summer Olympics, China, Ezra Klein, Olympic Boycott, Opening Ceremony Boycott, Summer Olympics, Tibet

It’s Called False Consciousness For a Reason

28Mar08

Yesterday Ezra Klein wrote this on the prospect that Barack Obama is a Liberal!!!
George Zornick, filling in for Eric Alterman, points out yesterday’s Washington Post article asking whether Obama is…gasp!…a liberal. “What’s so strange about the story,” says Zornick, “and others like it, is that it never attempts to define liberalism, simply presenting it [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama, Ezra Klein, Hillary Clinton, Liberalism, Liberals, Progressives

Too Self Absorbed to be of a Party or Clique

23Oct07

I saw Atrios make fun the idea that Andrew Sullivan has “a moderate grasp of statistical reasoning” featured in this post at Crooked Timber. Both the post and the featured article are worth a read.
Here’s a similar dust up between Ezra Klein and Andrew Sullivan.
Sullivan appears to be extra irritable about people questioning decisions [...]

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Tags: Andrew Sullivan, Crooked Timber, Ezra Klein, The New Republic

The Era of Big Government, Carbon Taxes, and BRICs

18Oct07

So I’ve been thinking a lot about big picture political economy questions. I think I’ve come to the conclusion that a lot of the national discourse is driven by larger trends that are rarely mentioned in the context the particular stories they drive.
I think there are three primary trends going on in America and the [...]

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Tags: BRICs, Ezra Klein, Global Warming, Political Economy, Social Security