Vice President for Policy at the Niskanen Center; former US politics correspondent for The Economist
We wouldn’t argue about politics and policy if we agreed. Disagreement is the ground on which debate is waged. But disagreement is often deeper and more complicated than we immediately grasp. This can make it difficult for parties to arguments to even agree on the meaning of terms or on a…
The great strange fact of human history is how it came to be that a good chunk of our species, after more than 100,000 years of scraping by, suddenly got rather wildly rich. Deirdre McCloskey, the eminent economic historian and social theorist, calls it the…
