On Facebook yesterday, an economist friend wrote that, in criticizing work by Thomas Piketty, he was claiming that Piketty is arrogant. He asked me (and others) if I thought that it was a good idea for him to make a joke linking Piketty's presumed arrogance with his being French and an intellectual.
Both Steve Vladeck and Raha Wala have penned responses to my post of last week complaining of the quality of the “Close Guantanamo” debate. I will react very briefly to each.
Right now, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is charged with deciding whether or not to approve the proposed $38 billion merger between two separate companies, Comcast, which operates cable, Internet and telephone operations, and Time Warner Cable (TWC). I have no involvement in this transaction, whatsoever.
Americans are free to choose where to live and work, what products to buy, and which services to use. But there is one important sphere in which Americans do not have freedom of choice—education, both primary and secondary.
