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  • The Two Economies

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    New York Times: The Two Economies  David Brooks … His [Tyler Cowan] work leaves the impression that there are two interrelated American economies. On the one hand, there is the globalized tradable sector — companies that have to compete with everybody everywhere. These companies, with the sword of foreign competition hanging over them, have become…

  • The Technocracy Boom

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    New York Times (David Brooks): The Technocracy Boom When historians look back on the period between 2001 and 2011, they will be amazed that a nation that professed to hate bureaucracy produced so much of it. During the first part of this period, the Republicans were in control. They expanded a vast national security bureaucracy.…

  • The Republicans: What’s wrong with America’s right

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    The Economist: The Republicans: What's wrong with America's right Too much anger and too few ideas. America needs a better alternative to Barack Obama. HAPPY days are here again for the Republicans, or so you might think. Barack Obama’s popularity rating is sagging well below 50%. Passing health-care reform has done nothing to help him;…

  • The Long Voyage Home

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    New York Times: The Long Voyage Home (David Brooks) Republicans generally like Westerns. They generally admire John Wayne-style heroes who are rugged, individualistic and brave. They like leaders — from Goldwater to Reagan to Bush to Palin — who play up their Western heritage. Republicans like the way Westerns seem to celebrate their core themes…

  • Young evangelicals diverge from GOP

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    Washington Times: Young evangelicals diverge from GOP Young evangelical Protestants continue to cling closely to their bedrock conservative values. Yet they are abandoning trust in the White House and straying from the Republican Party, according to an analysis that tracked waning sentiments from 2001 to 2007. "An examination of the younger generation [those ages 18…

  • The Green Old Party

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    From the Acton PowerBlog: The Green Old Party The old saws that ecology must come at a price (jobs, taxes, etc) aren’t overcome by ignoring them, but rather by confronting them with green business models and reasonable legislation that balance environmental, human and economic needs. If the GOP wants to survive in the 21st century,…