- On the heels of Friday's weak jobs numbers, Gary Becker writes about why the recovery in employment in the U.S. has been so slow.
- Europe's austerity experiment has failed, according to John Cassidy at The New Yorker. Over at Cafe Hayek, Russ Roberts responds that the Europeans haven't even stepped up the lab bench.
- Mark Harrison on the two conflicting purposes of taxation in a democracy.
- And in today's Wall Street Journal, Peter Berkowitz assigns some required reading.