On Aug 4, 2011, at 9:52 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
> I prefer general secretary.
>
> Yglesias' referencing of Lula's successes in Brazil struck me
> as characteristically glib... I guess when you're as prolific as him and all
> you're trying to produce is a couple of paragraphs, one little graph is
> enough to make a sweeping pronouncement without any consideration of how
> different the contexts between the two countries are.
MattYg: "I keep coming across odd columns urging us to try to emulate the alleged successes of Chinese central planning." Sure, why not?
"Alleged"?