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...Goes to Jail. The Colbert Report has been a special haven of sanity amid the sky-is-falling hysteria. And again, history is encouraging in this regard: Saturday Night Live and modern comedy were born during the malaise-y '70s, just as wit and humor - the New Yorker, the Marx Brothers, screwball comedy - flourished in the '30s. I'm even hopeful that the meltdown and resulting reset might jar the culture in deeper ways. For three decades, too much of art and design and entertainment has seemed caught in a cul-de-sac, almost compulsively reviving styles and remixing...
...Science is simple. It tests hypotheses, observes the results, and then creates new hypotheses and theories. A scientific economist would clearly see the results of implementing Professor Mankiw’s theories. They failed, just as the economic theories of Karl Marx failed. The Soviet Union imploded under Marx’s economic policies, and our country nearly imploded in 1939 and 2008 as a result of conservative economic policies...
...Marx Out of Ten What would Marx think [Feb. 2]? What kind of a question is that? I can tell you what. "Blimey, so I was right all the time." That's what Marx would think. And he'd be darned right. Bärbel A Rautenberg, HAMBURG, GERMANY...
...Marx saw that the economic mechanisms of his time created appalling living conditions for workers. He was right that this couldn't go on forever. The real-world solution was not as clear-cut and revolutionary as his theory predicted. It was and is a long process of adjustment, confrontation and integration. The West has solved some of the problems but outsourced others. We could happily forget about this as long as it was happening to weak, marginalized countries, but now China plays an active part in the world economy. We can't command China to give us cheap...
...Marx turned Hegel upside down.” (General Education...