- Why is Woodrow Wilson considered better than Warren G. Harding? Scott Sumner theorizes that historians put a lot of prestige in “power” and Wilson was the premier “power” President, to America’s great harm.
- Richard Thalyer gets owned on ski slopes by Glen Whitman. Again, private actors using private incentives to perform private actions isn’t paternalism. Why not? Because they aren’t forcing or even “nudging” people; they’re providng services.
- Nothing succeeds like failure.
- Paul Erlich never learns. It’s funny how he makes fun of Julian Simon, attacking his knowledge of science, when Simon clearly knew more about the science than Erlich ever will.
