Links And A Nice Song For Sunday, December The 2nd

I'm not a huge fan of the production on Angst in My Pants, but this is one of the nicest songs I've ever heard:

-Robert Solow on how Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman lowered the level of debate about economics. Solow is a another good antidote to the idea that big-name economists are all myopic libertarians.

-Andre Picard on B.C.'s success in slowing the spread of HIV by expanding access to antiretrovirals.

-Gerald Caplan excoriates the Conservatives for voting down a bill to reform the Canadian Access to Medicines Regime―again. It was an evil thing to do.

-Barack Obama's opening bid in the fiscal cliff negotiation seems pretty okay to me. As I noted, I expect that the Democrats will probably cave on extending the Bush tax cuts.

-Speaking of austerity and stimulus: this was really cool and arts spending should be on the agenda the next time Canada has to engage in expansionary fiscal policy.

-Ta-Nehisi Coates has been writing some great stuff about Lincoln. He also had a good response to arguments that Jefferson's monstrousness doesn't matter.

Go see Lincoln, and have yourself a nice week.