Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman said yes it was, in a column called Reagan Did It: For the more one looks into the origins of the current disaster, the clearer it becomes that the key wrong turn — the turn that made crisis inevitable — took place in the early 1980s, during the ReaganContinue reading “Lefty vs. Lefty: Was Economic Crash Reagan’s Fault?”
Monthly Archives: June 2009
The Inexplicable Rightness of Good Poetry
How does Rae Armantrout write so eloquently without (exactly) making sense? Sky god girl. Pick out the one that doesn’t belong. From a longer poem called Advent, in this month's Poetry. All great art has a mysteriousness, an inexplicable rightness, at which we can only marvel…