Must Read/Listen
- Andrew Bacevich, Presidential Wars
- Andrew Bacevich interviewed on WBUR’s On Point, America’s Long War In The Middle East
Should Read
- Peter Eavis (NYT), Yes, Bernie Sanders Knows Something About Breaking Up Banks
- Mike Konczal, Bernie Versus the Banks
- Cathy O’Neil, There are lots of ways to break up the big banks
- Trump’s debt proposal is a mix of conventional and unconventional stupidity
- Mike the Mad Biologist, The Freakout We’re Witnessing Is New Democrats Realizing They Have To Negotiate With The Left
- Corey Robin, What’s going to happen to liberals when the Right begins to give way?
Politics
- Jared Bernstein, Bernie v. Jeffrey
- Mike the Mad Biologist, Decades of Experience And No Details
- Mike the Mad Biologist, Magic Asterisks And Clinton’s Healthcare Plan
- Matt Taibbi, College Kids Aren’t the Only Ones Demanding ‘Safe Spaces’
- Isaac Chotiner, Barney Frank Is Not Impressed by Bernie Sanders
- Mark Thoma, What Bernie Sanders Gets Right
- Chris Dillow, Tories & Communists
- Chris Dillow, Incentives as ideology
Math and Statistics
- The Leisure of the Theory Class, The war on p-value
- Andrew Gelman, The problems with p-values are not just with p-values: My comments on the recent ASA statement [Ed.: The author of the post above needs to read this one.]
Culture
- WBUR Here and Now, Singer-Songwriter Ben Harper On Race, Police Violence And Making Music
Beer: Making the World a Better Place 12 to 20 oz. at a Time
- James Fallows, On National Beer Day, Craft Brewers Improving Water, and Life, in More Ways Than One
- White Birch Brewing, Berliner Weisse
Ending on a Positive Note
- Daisy Girifalco, The Fox Family In Residence Near the Davis Road Conservation Area
- Robert O’Connell, The Chicago Cubs and the New Baseball