In 2017, then Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Janet “Inflation Is Transitory” Yellen hinted there would not be another financial crisis “in our lifetimes.”
Fits in neatly with Riggs' War on Expertocracy, since as know-it-alls, economists rank with gods and Generals.
You mention that no mention is made of medicine. No need, since books are now pouring forth about the mother of all know-it-all train wrecks, medical expertise in the China Virus Pandemic. Tony "Getchya Boosta" Fauci is surely a god in the Pantheon of Fools Who Would Be Experts. For Best Actor in the "Seldom Right, Never in Doubt" category, I would nominate Fauci and Robert McNamara, though surely Tiny Tony will get the Expertocracy Oscar. He was much more deadly than Body Count Bob. Da Fauch stands alone in body counts. And he not only mis, dis and malinformed victims of the China Virus bioweapon, he funded R&D on it. McNamara did not raise the money for his dumb war or invent misleading the public about it. LBJ did that. (But, to his credit, he never said he was an expert, and LBJ was so plagued with doubt.)
Finally an educated reader's observation about Law and Liberty. Riggs wrote his fine review for its only section which remains intellectualy esteemable, its book reviews. L&L, in my opinion, declined greatly in recent years, a decline I note that coincided with what seems to me to have been its editors' decisions to join the Orange Man Bad mob and also to stop publishing reader comments and criticisms of its increasingly unimpressive articles and essays. (Ironically, the comments and criticisms of its stuff, then, were often more thoughtful, defensible, well-written and readable than its stuff.)
L&L was once a cherished publication, and I hope it can regain its footing. From the Weekly Standard, National Review and such, conservativism has endured too much, which is enough.
Unlike like my ex, Tyrannus Ex, I do apologize for my errors.
Explanation for my malapropism: DC area, where I have lived for 50 years, once had a dominant, locally-owned bank (remember those?) called Riggs Bank, which I used for 30 years.
Excellent book review in Law and Liberty.
Warm congratulations!
Fits in neatly with Riggs' War on Expertocracy, since as know-it-alls, economists rank with gods and Generals.
You mention that no mention is made of medicine. No need, since books are now pouring forth about the mother of all know-it-all train wrecks, medical expertise in the China Virus Pandemic. Tony "Getchya Boosta" Fauci is surely a god in the Pantheon of Fools Who Would Be Experts. For Best Actor in the "Seldom Right, Never in Doubt" category, I would nominate Fauci and Robert McNamara, though surely Tiny Tony will get the Expertocracy Oscar. He was much more deadly than Body Count Bob. Da Fauch stands alone in body counts. And he not only mis, dis and malinformed victims of the China Virus bioweapon, he funded R&D on it. McNamara did not raise the money for his dumb war or invent misleading the public about it. LBJ did that. (But, to his credit, he never said he was an expert, and LBJ was so plagued with doubt.)
Finally an educated reader's observation about Law and Liberty. Riggs wrote his fine review for its only section which remains intellectualy esteemable, its book reviews. L&L, in my opinion, declined greatly in recent years, a decline I note that coincided with what seems to me to have been its editors' decisions to join the Orange Man Bad mob and also to stop publishing reader comments and criticisms of its increasingly unimpressive articles and essays. (Ironically, the comments and criticisms of its stuff, then, were often more thoughtful, defensible, well-written and readable than its stuff.)
L&L was once a cherished publication, and I hope it can regain its footing. From the Weekly Standard, National Review and such, conservativism has endured too much, which is enough.
Briggs, not riggs.
Sorry again.
Unlike like my ex, Tyrannus Ex, I do apologize for my errors.
Explanation for my malapropism: DC area, where I have lived for 50 years, once had a dominant, locally-owned bank (remember those?) called Riggs Bank, which I used for 30 years.
HaHa
What typos?
Oh, you mean my typos!
I thought you meant Riggs' typos.
Riggs for Briggs is a bideno, not a typo.
"Where's Riggs? Stand up, Riggs!"
"Riggs is like Waldo, hard to find in a crowd."
"We go back a long way."
"Once I took Riggs out behind the woodshed and used my Cornpop chain on him."
"No joke!"
BTW: According to Strunk and White in "The Elements of Style," A bideno is punctuated with a kamala, as is a vacuous remark.