Ignorance and Expertise

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  August 25th at 02:46 PM  | 

I was reading this excellent 2010 speech by the great baseball writer Bill James in his latest essay collection, “Solid Fool’s Gold: Detours on the Way to Conventional Wisdom”, and the whole thing is available at his website if you’re a subscriber. It’s an excellent summary of what James does and does not do for a living, but I found it also very pointed about | Read More »

Cap And Don’t Trade: Obama May Set Off Trade War With Climate Policy

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  March 9th at 12:42 PM  | 

As anyone who followed the Kyoto Protocols back in the 1990s can tell you, even if you believe that government action to stem carbon emissions would be desirable, Kyoto wasn’t a genuine effort to get a worldwide agreement on limiting emissions: it exempted seven of the world’s eight most populous nations (the U.S. being the lone exception) from its provisions, including rapidly growing economies like | Read More »