http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/12/19/here-you-go-dave-we-give-in/ "While the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power." Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:32:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/12/19/here-you-go-dave-we-give-in/#comment-1351 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 03:31:23 +0000 http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/12/19/here-you-go-dave-we-give-in/#comment-1351 The <i>New Statesman</i> still cleaves to a Weltanschauung that has been demonstrated, empirically, to be bogus. What chance that argument or exposition of the facts could penetrate that? It's what the Jesuits used to call invincible ignorance. If by the time you're penning articles for supposedly serious political magazines you remain unconvinced of the merits of free trade, then you are probably irredeemable. Left or Right doesn't really enter the picture; Brad de Long, Paul Krugman, Milton Friedman and Richard Epstein all agreed that trade is most beneficial when as unfettered as possible. The New Statesman still cleaves to a Weltanschauung that has been demonstrated, empirically, to be bogus. What chance that argument or exposition of the facts could penetrate that? It’s what the Jesuits used to call invincible ignorance. If by the time you’re penning articles for supposedly serious political magazines you remain unconvinced of the merits of free trade, then you are probably irredeemable. Left or Right doesn’t really enter the picture; Brad de Long, Paul Krugman, Milton Friedman and Richard Epstein all agreed that trade is most
beneficial when as unfettered as possible.

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