Posts Tagged ‘Matthew Yglesias’
Ten Years Ago…
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
Straight Talk on Conservatives
Here’s something Matthew Yglesias wrote the other day. The conversation was about if Conservatism had failed because it lacked ideas or appropriate problems.
There’s something to that, but I think the problem is actually much worse — the problem with the conservative movement is that it’s fundamentally malign. The plenty of things of, for example, a [...]
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Here is Matthew Yglesias discussing a Washington Post editorial earlier today.
Today’s Washington Post editorial on Iraq dedicated to slamming Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is really baffling. Their big point is that Democratic plans to withdraw troops from Iraq are somehow unrealistic or based on “fantasy” which seems to simply miss the contours of the [...]
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Tags: Foreign Policy, George Bush, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq Withdrawal, Matthew Yglesias
So speaking of famous blogs, Yglesias put this post out yesterday.
In the post he responds to commentor Nostradamus who said
If it was all so foreseeable, why didn’t Yglesias foresee it? The truth is, he was pro-war when that was fashionable, and now he’s antiwar when that is fashionable.
As wars go, this one hasn’t [...]
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Tags: Iraq, Matthew Yglesias
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