If it can be said that there is a father of data-based government, it is a famous and controversial one: Robert McNamara. As a young captain during World War II, McNamara was assigned to the Army Air Corps Office of Statistical Control, where he applied the ideas about efficiency and cost-effectiveness that he’d learned at […]
May/June 2013
Posted inMagazine, May/June 2013
Bonds of Citizenship
A new route to universal national service and economic fairness.
Posted inMagazine, May/June 2013, Politics
Talk of the Toons
A selection of political cartoons from the past few weeks.
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, May/June 2013
Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past
Why we’re suckers for remakes of The Great Gatsby.
Posted inMagazine, May/June 2013
Tilting at Windmills
Large and in charge Attorney General Eric Holder recently told the Senate Judiciary Committee that some banks have become “so large” that it’s “difficult for us to prosecute them.” Wait a minute—I thought the Obama administration said that the big banks are not a problem. It certainly made no effort to break them up. But […]
Posted inMagazine, May/June 2013, Politics
Speech Therapy
When Barack Obama left to visit Israel in March, expectations could hardly have been lower. He had a relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that was widely described as “frosty.” The two had feuded over everything from Obama’s insistence, early in his first term, that Israel freeze settlement building to Netanyahu’s repeated threat to bomb […]
Posted inMagazine, May/June 2013
Under the Gaydar
How gays won the right to raise children without conservatives even noticing.
