That Offspring song is still in my head, and it still seems appropriate for the week. Here are a few pieces I stared in my Google Reader this week. All must reads (or listens):
Johan Rossouw explains the worrisome instability of South Africa. (HT Foreign Policy)
Alex Tabarrok discusses the fight over measuring unemployment during ht depression within the Great Depression, 1938.
Will Wilkinson agrees with Virginia Postrel. I agree as well.
Bryan Caplan says immigration foes should support a tax on immigrants rather than ban. It's a definite improvement. I don’t see this position ever being popular, because the anti-immigration crowd would prefer the costs that their views impose on others be unseen.
Free Exchange wants Obama and Bush to work together.
Fabio Rojas has a piece titled ‘Why I Admire the Obama I Know and Fear for the Obama that is to Come’. Quite interesting.
Eliezer Yudkowsky on Capitalist Values.
Foreign Policy has twenty questions for Barack Obama. The President-elect is encouraged to answer in the comments.
Richard Esptein discusses the relationship between happiness and wealth on Econtalk.
Greg Mankiw says economists should unite in opposition to Barack Obama's plan for mandatory community service as they did for the military draft. This mandatory national service program is a McCain-like idea that made me hesitant voting for him. My hope has faded a little...
Clive Crook One more excellent Obama post. Crook compares contrasts Barack Obama's situation with FDRs. BTW, I view FDR as a well-intentioned 'bungler who trashed the constitution and prolonged the Depression', who very often took one step forward, two steps back.
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That's quite an interesting article on South Africa. Liberty in South Africa was hard won, but not hard enough to make those in command to realise that they're jeopardising liberty with the same methods that the apartheid regime had used. Zuma et al are desperately trying to edit the press with petty lawsuits and their interference with the national broadcaster. I disagree that the Shikota party won't be a force to be reckoned with for the ANC.They are already gaining mass support among the middle class of all ethnic groups and it is estimated that they'd get roughly 20% of the votes in the next election. Not bad for a party who is merely months old I'd say. The important thing is they'd provide real opposition to the ANC in terms of numbers, meaning our liberty is a little more secure. Of course I'm trying to be optimistic because the ANC has rubberstamped heavily anti-constitutional reforms like the fast-tracked disbandment of our DSO (or Scorpions).
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