Robert's Stochastic thoughts

1. I guess from the TV series it is official that John Snow is the son of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryan 2. I'm a fairly sure that...

Josh Barro notes that Republicans hate colleges and universities . The naive kid argued that this shows a cost of the recent left wing idioc...

I am having a twitter quarrel with @radiofreeTom. It began with this tweet I suggested that we ask Hans Blix if Saddam Hussein cooper...

One source said Trump called the House bill “mean, mean, mean” and said, “We need to be more generous, more kind.” The other source said T...

Have I come up with a title less attractive than "Worthwhile Canadian Initiative" ? I certainly don't expect anyone to read t...

COTTON: “Do you believe Donald Trump colluded with Russia?” COMEY: “It’s a question I don’t think I should answer in open session.” S...

I was already worried that I'g starting to like Ben Sasse more than I want anyone to like a conservative Republican when I saw this twee...

I admire Jonathan Chait. In particular, I admire his denunciation of those (e.g. Barack Obama) who criticize "some in my party" w...

update: OK the bill came back from the dead and has now been approved by 217 representatives. At the moment Ryan isn't the sad man (alt...

This is a very closed thread for my students to comment on my course while it is in course. Comments may be posted as anonymous.

Take two aspirins and call me in the morning (or maybe in 100 years). As usual, I want to talk about crude empiricism vs microfoundations....

Mark Buchanan and Noah Smith discuss what is wrong with Macroeconomics. I think it is best to just click and read, but I particularly lik...

I am an atheist, but I try to be open minded. Also, I am drunk out of my mind. So I am going to discuss what I think God Migh Conceivably B...

One of the many admireable things which Brad DeLong does is to mark his beliefs to market. I decided to do a bit of that. I realize that on...

One of the many admireable things which Brad DeLong does is to mark his beliefs to market. I decided to do a bit of that. I realize that on...

John Podhoretz who wrote "What if the tactical mistake we made in Iraq was that we didn't kill enough Sunnis in the early going ...

Today the Washington Post opinion section demonstrated that The Wall Street Journal has employed a complete total idiot. "Asra Q. Nom...

I assume the reader is familiar with the furor related to the letter sent by FBI director James Comey to Rep. Joshua Chaffetz (Rep. Utah (in...

The FBI now has a warrant to read e-mails sent and received by Huma Abedin which are stored on a laptop which she shared with Anthony Weiner...

I very much enjoyed the recent columns on the current status of conservatism by David Brooks and Ross Douthat . I don't have anything u...