The utopia at the end of history will be… awkward at best.
It looks like our man Hugo Chavez has retaliated against the United States, which blocked some Venezuelan air carriers due to safety reasons 10 years ago. Now, Continental and Delta are completely banned, while American is restricted.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said the decision was unjustified and violated a 1953 aviation agreement between […]
I’ve often read of and even observed the ‘imperialism’ of the economics discipline. That is, economists are studying topics found in the domain of every other field of social science. An important part, as I understand, of doing science is constructing better and more general theories. A profound insight from physics comes to mind, the […]
It seems as though many countries that survived the Iron Curtain have been at the forefront of a new conservatism in the modern sense. They have been among the first to pioneer low flat rate income taxes, thereby encouraging investment, simple uniformity in often complex, unwieldy tax codes, and actual payment of the taxes.
Years […]
Are David Cameron’s Tories shifting leftward? They’re polling well, anyway.
As you know, we here at Awkward Utopia specialize in only the hardest-hitting of journalism. When a certain un-named former UES President decried Chicago’s lack of rationality, its city government’s stifling 1984-like regulations and monitors– some of us laughed. Especially notable, our President warned, were the labels on the garbage cans, on the buses, on […]
This is the fourth and final planned post on Caesar Augustus. In my previous two posts, I discussed how Augustus reformed and coopted the Roman Senate. Here I will give some brief attention to the powers and titles he possessed, for these legalities were crucial to the orderly restoration and transfer of Roman power after […]
Croatia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Latvia, and Ukraine all winning medals so far. This is the start of something beautiful.
Marginal Revolution got me thinking about the physical dimensions of art. The question, in summary, that they post is: are bigger paintings better? The rough answer is that in general, relatively speaking, bigger is better, but not always and not beyond say the point of impractical display. Sounds reasonable enough.
Although I think most […]
Ladies and gentlemen, this is hot off the presses. I received an email from Governor Bush today outlining his A++ Education Plan (oh the satires will be funny, haha yes, we know A+++, then A+++++, then A+^Googolplex, we get it). Beside its more revolutionary proclamations, such as “reading is the key to learning,” it outlines […]
“The latest rash of school policies continues this downhill slide — promoting the philosophy that we must be told what to eat because we are incapable of deciding for ourselves and beginning to take the next step by legislating what can and can’t be eaten and by providing consequences for those who do not comply.” […]
In my absence Bob took detailed minutes. Their elegant precision nearly forced me to resign. But alas, the power is too great to dispense. The minutes in their entirety follow.
6th Meeting, Spring 2006, of the University Economics Society
Met and held in Matherly Hall, Room 120
Diego Madrigal, Presiding
Persons in Attendance:
Diego M., President of the UES
Tom D., […]
In yet another laudatory position on the part of Florida Governor Jeb Bush, he has declared his opposition to a bill in the Florida legislature that would require large companies to provide a certain amount of their earnings on health care. In relevant parts:
The measure, pushed by Democratic lawmakers and backed by labor unions, is […]
As an amusing aside to my posts on Rome, here’s a website presenting comparative (and projected) histories of the American and Roman empires. This certainly brings new meaning to the old Roman saying, “Their story is ours.” All hail president Kennedy Clinton Roosevelt. My thanks to Coming Anarchy for the link.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present the Caribbean Single Market Economy.
I apologize for the tardiness of this transcript, and I have quite a list of excuses. I’ll leave your creativity the task of enumerating them. Also unfortunate, I wasn’t quite on my game that afternoon. I missed a good amount of comments, and for this-I apologize. Anyway, here it is!
5:19 Awkward Intros begin
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