Audit Notes: Fukayama on the Crisis, WSJ on Exec Pay, Nonprofit News
The Browser has a great interview with Francis Fukayama on his five favorite financial-crisis books. Here he is on whether companies like Goldman Sachs were really capable of committing systematic fraud: It depends what you mean by systematic. Lloyd Blankfein doesn’t get up in the morning and say, “OK. How are we going to defraud people today?” but I...
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Evangelicals, Mormons, and Mitt Romney
The New York Times runs an op-ed headlined "Why Evangelicals Don't Like Mormons," which takes on an important issue but glosses over the critical role fundamentalism plays in the phenomenon. David S. Reynolds is writing about the political woes of Mitt Romney in evangelical-heavy primaries in Iowa and South Carolina and trying to explain how evangelicals think in that...
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The Presidential Energy Narrative
In the last week, President Obama has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, focused his first campaign ad on clean energy, visited the Environmental Protection Agency for the first time, devoted seven minutes to energy in his State of the Union speech, and touted fossil fuels and renewables out west. It was an environmentally charged stretch for a president setting...
