links for 2009-05-31

• War on Error: General Powell Told Bush "Don't Do It" on January 26, 2002
• Eric Kleefeld: Sotomayor Spark Lights Intra-GOP Conflagration
• David Frum and Company
• Alan Viard: Don't Give Away the Cap-and-Trade Permits
• Daniel Shavuro: Doug Holtz-Eakin talks up new conservative think tank
• Gary Gorton: Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand: Banking and the Panic of 2007
• PhilipGreenspun: How the Web and the Weblog have changed Writing
• AP: The mortgage crisis is spreading and hitting new heights: Borrowers with good credit now make up the largest share of foreclosures as job losses and pay cuts exact their toll...
• Matthew Yglesias: Not a Parody
• Matthew Yglesias: Netanyahu Surprised to Learn that Obama Means What He Says on Settlements
• Will Wilkinson: The rise of collectivist conservatives
• Richard Rigby: Can China embrace its history and Zhao Ziyang’s memoir?
• Adam Serwer: The Racialism of the Odious Stuart Taylor, Jr.
• Brendan Nyhan: David Broder credits the Heritage Foundation for being what it's frequently not: Rigorous, evenhanded and scholarly
• David Nather: GOP Explores Ways to Repitch the ‘Big Tent’
• Robert Davis: Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800
• Andrew Gelman: The fallacy of the one-sided bet (for example, risk, God, torture, and lottery tickets) - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• Dahlia Remler and Elda Pema: Why do Institutions of Higher Education Reward Research While Selling Education?
• Dahlia Remler and Elda Pema: Why are more colleges rewarding professorial research?
• Joe Costelo: Review of Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation « naked capitalism