Reducing the Deficit Through the No COLA Year
Edward Zelinsky’s monthly column.
Health Care and the Massachusetts Senate Election
Edward Zelinsky looks at health care cost control.
The Lesson of the 2009 Holiday Shopping Season:
Tax Internet Sales
Edward Zelinsky looks at taxes on online sales.
Bend The Cost Curve:
Raise the Medicare Eligibility Age to 67
Edward Zelinsky looks at a way to control future Medicare costs.
$250 Checks to Seniors: Just Say No
Edward Zelinsky looks at the Obama Administration’s plan to send an additional $250 to social security recipients.
Three Cheers for the IRS – Really
Edward Zelinsky applauds the IRS.
Why I Am For Death Panels
Edward Zelinsky looks at death panels.
Confusing Suds with Substance
Edward Zelinsky looks at disorderly conduct.
Filling Supreme Court Vacancies
Edward Zelinsky explains why he supports the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor.
The Torture Debate: Getting Beyond Dick and Nancy
Edward Zelinsky looks at the torture debate.
Swine Flu, Telecommuting and New York’s Extraterritorial Taxation of Nonresidents’ Incomes
Edward Zelinsky argues that Swine Flu is just another reason workers should not be penalized for working from home.
President Obama Embraces the Defined Contribution Paradigm
Edward Zelinsky looks closely at Obama’s budget.
Winning by Losing
Edward Zelinsky reflects on why Obama doesn’t want a filibuster-proof senate.
On Marriage
Edward Zelinsky suggests that a free market in religion has made Americans a religious people, and therefore, a competitive market for marriage would strengthen marriage by unleashing the entrepreneurial energies of groups promoting their own models of marriage.
“I should’ve picked a better hashtag”: Lauren Appelwick on the OUPblog
I was late turning in this reflection. Do you know how embarrassing that is? The former Editor missing a deadline to the current Editor? Apparently blogging muscles atrophy after you adapt to writing mostly in 140-character sprints.
Our Antonia
The first time I read My Antonia, I hated it. That was to be expected: It was required reading in my sophomore English course at Omaha Central High. This was during the Sixties. In the Age of Aquarius, no one was supposed to like assigned reading. That’s why it had to be assigned. I next confronted My Antonia in college. Like Jim Burden, Willa Cather’s narrator, I had left Nebraska to go to east to continue my education.