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Have you read David Leonhardt’s exposé in the N.Y. Times “The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You“? According to Mr Leonhardt: “For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans last year paid a lower total tax … Continue reading →

File under “the mysteries of pricing.” As of this writing, it will cost you $25 USD to park your car at a distant parking lot (the tram ride to the park is “free”) and $50 USD if you want to … Continue reading →

They aren’t the only ones to have secret Twitter “burner” accounts, but what motivates this contemporary form of moral cowardice? What if every Twitter user had their own burner account? Bonus question: Does the President (@realDonaldTrump) have a secret Twitter … Continue reading →

Above is Joan Miró’s painting Personage depicting one of his dreams from the 1920s. According to this blurb, Miró’s art was “stimulated … by hunger-induced hallucinations involving his impressions of poetry. These resulted in the artist’s ‘dream paintings,’ such as … Continue reading →

Celia Cruz was born on this day in 1925 in Havana. ¡Libertad para mi Cuba!

Hat tip: @kottke

We’ve heard of Johannes Haushofer’s iconic “CV of failures“, but Professor Haushofer’s anti-CV has got nothing on Caitlin Kirby’s skirt consisting of academic rejection letters (pictured below). Kirby, a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University, defended her dissertation while wearing … Continue reading →

By now, you have probably heard of Greta Thunberg, the world-famous Swedish teenage climate-change activist who has urged immediate action to address the risks posed by man-made climate change. That’s putting it mildly; in the words of Ms Thunberg, “People … Continue reading →

Check out Kay Hymowitz’s excellent review of Daniel Markovits’ new book (pictured below), which is titled The Meritocracy Trap (Penguin, 2019). Here is one revealing excerpt from her review of Markovits’s book: “As economist (yes, Harvard-educated) Tyler Cowen has quipped: ‘The … Continue reading →