Andy Morriss — Professor Law at Case Western Reserve University — and I started a new blog entitled Market Correction. Here’s the link.
At this blog, Andy and I post the many letters-to-the-editor that we each write. Between us, Andy and I write more than a dozen letters weekly to editors of newspapers and magazines, usually attempting to correct pieces of mistaken economic or legal analysis.
I hope you’ll visit Market Correction from time to time — but don’t let it keep you from Cafe Hayek!
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Its got potential.
Suggest moving the archives block over to the left margin and expanding the post area to the right margin. The tall narrow format is hard to read.
I had no idea you wrote so many letters. Thank you for taking the effort to educate people.
I like the format, and I think I prefer the current narrow format to the wider format suggested by Randy, particularly for the shorter letters.
The tone of your letters is spot-on. I am inspired to start writing letters to my local publications myself: thank you.
Suggest sending your well written letters to elected leaders who can effect change. Trying to get the liberal media to change a position or even admit a glaring error is mostly a waste of your resources.
Average Joe- the point of writing letters to the editor, their name notwithstanding, isn't really to get the editor to think differently (except in cases where you making a factual correction). The real point of writing letters to the editor is to persuade fellow readers. The letter-writer is presenting an alternative viewpoint from that of the newspaper, and this is often a great service to the readers, who now have seen another way of looking at things. Don's letters are (sadly) as unlikely to make a politician change his mind as a newspaper editor, but very likely to persuade 100s of readers. And that's a very good use of resources.