David Adam Friedman (Willamette): Micropaternalism. From Buzzfeed’s longform BuzzReads, Joe Flood goe inside America's elite search and rescue dog training center; and Natasha Vargas-Cooper goes deep inside the biggest little dildo factory in America. The Dean of Dissent: Michael Walzer on drones, democracy, and his retirement. Proof that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had assimilated? He spoke black. Jett Heer on sex, economics, and austerity: The real meaning of Niall Ferguson’s John Maynard Keynes-was-gay jibe — and why Keynes is so threatening to conservative economists and moralists alike. If you get a PhD, get an economics PhD. When it comes to the distribution of the tax burden, what matters most are metrics like poverty, not inequality and, when it comes to reducing inequality, we should be looking for tools beyond the tax system.
