I listened to the first 20 or so minutes of last night’s “debate” between what George Will correctly calls a “bloviating ignoramus” who is completely without principles and a power-lusting political insider who is completely without principles. Sensing a loss of my own sanity and humanity – and unable any longer to tolerate the incessant insults to my intelligence – I turned the horrible spectacle off. I went immediately to bed – but I should instead have done what Sarah Skwire recommends.
My colleague Bryan Caplan offers sound apolitical reasons to despise politics.
Richard Rahn supplies a useful guide for separating economic sense from nonsense. (HT Warren Smith)
James Pethokoukis is reading Deirdre McCloskey’s Bourgeois Equality.
Nick Gillespie has a sensible suggestion to improve future U.S. presidential “debates.” (Hint: it has something to do with making these events be something closer to real debates.)
John Cochrane is understandably not grumpy about Jason Furman’s recent op-ed on housing restrictions.
