Megan McArdle has an incisive post arguing (unintentionall) in favor of my old idea that government was the voodoo of the 20th Century.
Quick explaination: the belief of left- and right-wing idiots that with just the right law, you could have a perfect society, or make pi equal to three, or make water run uphill, or Social Security solvent.
Let’s hope the 21st dispells that murderous bit of mysticism.
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