this is an adventure

“The academic world suffers from too many people trying to hire people too much like themselves. We simply do not give intellectual diversity a high priority in academe, and intellectual life suffers as a result.” Followup to a Mark Lilla article touches on some surprising factors to come out of conservatism’s minority status on campus.

“Obama’s regulatory revamp would create a new consumer protection agency to protect the consumer from himself, as well as from predatory lenders; a ‘resolution authority’ to seize and wind down insolvent non-banks; and an oversight council to share information across markets and plug regulatory gaps ‘that don’t fit neatly into the organizational chart.’” Easy, now.

Most wanted 28 year old: “The dead terrorist, Saleh Ali Nabhan, is believed to have taken part in the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He is also believed to have orchestrated the 2002 bombing of a resort hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, and a failed missile attack on an Israeli airliner.”

Samuelson: “When Obama says that ‘I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last,’ he is indulging his ambition for a special place in history and illustrating why Americans don’t discuss health care honestly.” This debate has featured more exaggerations than any we can remember.