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...idea of a flag-burning amendment is advanced mostly by conservatives who seem not to understand that its logic partakes of the worst of coercive and morally negligent thinking from the other side of the ideological aisle. How does the rationale for prohibiting flag-burning differ from the politically correct fascism on university campuses that, for example, denies a hearing to Ward Connerly, the Californian behind the legal drive against affirmative action...
Clearly, the administration should switch from the FLA to the WRC. Pure logic sides with the WRC, and it costs Harvard next to nothing to switch. But why hasn't Harvard done as many universities recently have and made the change? The WRC has set April 1 as its cut-off date for universities to particpate in the first round of agenda-setting and decision-making...
...then Greenspan touched off a firestorm by arguing that today's technological innovation and improved efficiency can themselves ignite inflation. His logic? Strong productivity growth raises the outlook for corporate profits, which drives the stock market higher. As equity prices soar, Americans feel wealthier, and that encourages them to continue their wild shopping spree. "The problem is that the pickup in productivity tends to create even greater increases in aggregate demand than in potential aggregate supply," says Greenspan...
...This logic turns the new economy philosophy on its head. "This is new," says Lawrence Kudlow, chief economist at Schroder & Co. "No government official has previously argued that rising productivity causes inflation and therefore should be reduced." Most economists fervently believe that rising productivity, led by advances in computers and software, is an inflation killer and that there is no such thing as too much productivity growth...
Robert Wright is the author of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny