Clearing the Tabs May 15, 2020

Some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. It appears the month will be a long one, and a lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts, expect a post on May 31 as well.

May 1
Subways Seeded the NYC Epidemic: MIT Economist

The Pandemic Road to Serfdom
Our Covid-era oligarchs are fitting us for feudalism.

May 3
Letter from Los Angeles: The death of small business is a tragedy for Jewish community and democracy

May 4

Falling Prices Aren't 'Deflation.' They Instead Signal Booming Growth

Coronavirus and the Future of Public Policy

Congress, don't extend disincentives to work

May 6
Rethinking the Social Safety Net

May 7
Cuomo to Covid Volunteers: Pay Up
The governor imposes New York income taxes on the health-care workers from other states who answered his call to come fight coronavirus.

One Nation, Under Lockdown, Divided By Pandemic

May 8
Deindustrialization as a Template for COVID-19

May 9
Don’t bet on vitamin D to fight coronavirus, researchers warn

Coronavirus Is Worsening America’s Grim Fiscal Outlook
May 10
The flattened economy must be revived now

Hygienic fascism: Turning the world into a 'safe space' — but at what cost?

May 11
The Glory—and Risk—of Cities
From the beginning, urban density has yielded opportunity while also posing the danger of contagion.

May 12
Are California leaders 'losing the locker room' with coronavirus response?

May 13
Time to explode the Andrew Cuomo myth

May 14
Towards a Better Urbanism

The Dangerous Consequences of Renewables in the Age of COVID-19

May 15
Keeping schools closed in the fall is not a viable option

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Clearing the Tabs April 2020

Some things I've read this month or will be reading soon.

April 1

After coronavirus, we need to rethink densely populated cities

A Better Solution to the Covid-19 Economic Crisis

April 3
Keep Your Eye On The Lie: The Real Virus That Doomed Our Economy

April 9
But is it really no worse than flu?

April 10
Oligarchy and Pestilence

April 13
Who Will Prosper After the Plague?
The tech sector and the managerial class will get richer, while the rest of us become their serfs

On the Seasonality of the Virus

April 15
Six Habits to Cultivate on Your First Professional Project

April 18
Viral Politics

April 24
Reed Lays out Plan to Reopen the Country in a Way that will Keep Americans Safe & Secure

California’s Post-Corona Challenges
The Golden State faces some difficult choices ahead.

April 27
The Coronavirus Means You May Have Seen Your Last Skyscraper, New York

Triumph of the Woke Oligarchs

April 29
Why the largest-ever Arctic ozone hole just closed

Clearing the Tabs March 2020

Some things I've read this month or will be reading soon.

March 7
California Democrats exit planet Earth

A Lesson from Illinois: Higher Taxes Perpetuate Bad Policy and Exacerbate Fiscal Decline

March 12
Greening Our Way to Infection
The ban on single-use plastic grocery bags is unsanitary—and it comes at the worst imaginable time.

March 14
What Is Successful Evangelism?

March 18
We Were Warned Not to Bunch Up

March 20
Coronavirus and the future of living and working in America

March 23
Covid-19 Is a Rich Man's Virus That the Poor Will Suffer the Most

March 24
Is Andrew Ross Sorkin's Solution Worse Than the Crisis?

March 25
Why a Fed/Treasury 'Lending Facility' Would Worsen the Problem

The Coming Age of Dispersion

March 26
The End of New York
Will the pandemic push America’s greatest city over the edge?

March 28
The Echo Chamber of Ignorance and the Effort to Persuade People to Stay Home

March 30
Cuomo's Handling of Pandemic a Threat to Trump, If ...

Clearing the Tabs February 2020

Some things I've read this month or will be reading soon.

February 3
"Yield Caps": The Latest Stab at Elusive Relevance From the Federal Reserve

February 4
Dear "Forgotten America" Hand Wringers, Please Meet Mirza Hussain Haidiri

Feburary 8
Trump and Jobs: An Unbiased Analysis

Feburary 9
Will Somebody Please Hate My Enemies for Me?
Donald Trump is making it even harder for Christians to defend him, and yet they still do.

February 10
The Next Economy: Following The Trail Of U.S. Job Growth

February 13
What a Republican Climate-Change Agenda Might Look Like

A 21st-Century Spending Cap Would Have Turned Deficits into Surpluses

February 15
How different generations are influencing our politics

February 16
The Luxury City Is Going Bust
Mike Bloomberg’s vision proved to be a cul de sac. The future gentry liberals want is grim. A new urban paradigm is needed that focuses on core services for regular people.

February 22
Why can’t California create viable national leaders anymore?

February 25
The West Turns Red?

Studying the wrong cities will lead to repeating their mistakes

February 27
Surprise Leads to Market Corrections. Coronavirus Wasn't a Surprise

The Two Middle Classes

February 29
Democrats risk blowback with leftward turn

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On February 6th, one of the greatest, perhaps THE greatest baseball writer ever, Roger Kahn, passed away at 92 years of age. The tributes have been tasteful and informative, here are a few worth your time if you care about “old school” journalism and the way baseball writing took place in the 1950s.

Roger Kahn, Who Lifted Sportswriting With ‘Boys of Summer,’ Dies at 92
His 1972 book about his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers, acknowledged as a classic, was, like many of his 20 or so other books, steeped in memories of his boyhood.

Roger Kahn’s Legacy Goes Beyond The Boys of Summer
The late author forever changed how sports writers could portray athletes.

‘Boys of Summer’ author Roger Kahn dies at 92

Roger Kahn, author of the Dodgers baseball classic ‘The Boys of Summer,’ dead at 92

Bernice King on Social Justice and Love

Ms. King makes a good point here:

Jesus didn’t call it “social justice.”

He simply called it Love.

If we would only Love our neighbors beyond comfort, borders, race, religion and other differences that we’ve allowed to be barriers, “social justice” would be a given.

Love makes justice happen.

— Be A King (@BerniceKing) February 16, 2020

And she is right of course. Most of what passes for "social justice" today has been hijacked from its original meaning. Read the late Michael Novak's book, Social Justice Isn't What You Think It Is.

Clearing the Tabs January 2020

Some things I've read this month or will be reading soon.

January 9
Against Tribal America
Racialism, from any side of the political spectrum, is a recipe for disaster.

January 27
Nobody Wants to Leave Houston!

January 28
Hypocrites preaching Green

FDA to Purell: Stop claiming your hand sanitizers eliminate Ebola and the flu

January 30
CBO report shows Washington in denial over entitlements

January 31
The American Dream Is Alive and Well
Don’t listen to the populist naysayers: The U.S. economy continues to deliver jobs, higher wages and upward mobility for those who need it most.