links for 2007-06-01

• Jonathan Cohn:
  The question is how Obama's [health] plan compares to other approaches--and what it tells us about Obama's abilities, as both a candidate and lawmaker-in-chief, relative to his rivals.... Going into your swimming pool on a day when the water might be a li
• Henry Aaron: Chronic Deficit: Entitlement Crisis or Health Financing Problem?
• Georgie Anne Geyer: Friends of [Bush's] from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated "I am the president!" He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could no
• J. Robert Oppenheimer: On Albert Einstein: What we have heard, what you all know, what is the true part of the myth is his extraordinary originality. The discovery of quanta would surely have come one way or another, but he discovered them. Deep understan
• Marshall Berman: All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
• James Fallows: A Triumph of Misinformation