Otters, dogs, & liberaltarians
For those of you who haven’t been paying attention, Megan McArdle and Peter Suderman are off to get hitched. Congratulations to them both!
The good news doesn’t end there, however. Guest-blogging at McArdle’s digs while the newlyweds honeymoon we have:
Katherine Mangu-Ward of Reason magazine.
Cato research fellow and friend of The League, Will Wilkinson.
Cato fellow Julian Sanchez, who can now guest-blog for free off his royalties for inventing the phrase ‘epistemic closure’.
Courtney Knapp who I hear blogged regularly once upon a time, and who I’m looking forward to finally reading….
And, because Megan wanted to change things up a bit, Cato scholar Timothy B. Lee.
If there are more I suppose they’ll post their intros soon.
Should be good.
I’m glad they’re getting married. Marriage can be tough, but I’m sure that any difficulties they might face will be fixed by the market.Report
That should make Megan’s blog at least 80% less irritating.Report
This may just be me, but every time I read the phrase “epistemic closure” in a political context, I want to scream, “That’s not what it means!“Report
@Dylan,
Thanks — Sanchez didn’t invent epistemic closure, he misused the principle which has been around for quite a long time.Report
@Mike Farmer,
Julian has acknowledged that he deliberately deformed the meaning of the phrase. This sort of thing happens all the time.Report
And, because Megan wanted to change things up a bit, Cato scholar Timothy B. Lee.
Yup, that’ll add a lot of ideological variety.Report
@Mike Schilling, Heh. But y’know Cato employs people with a very wide range of different views – I mean Tim Lee isn’t particulaly libertarian except on network-related issues, and Bjorn Lomborg is some kind of generic European Social Democrat. Dislike them if you want to, but they’re the least ideologically purist of all the major think tanks and they do deserve some credit for that.Report
@Simon K, “Bjorn Lomborg is some kind of generic European Social Democrat.”
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT! Climate change denialists are on the right.Report
@Barry, by definition?Report
@Barry, Right, yes, of course. Everyone must be safely categorised or cognitive dissonance might cause our tiny brains to explode. Thank goodness for that.
Or you could try learning what people actually believe (hint – to be a denialist you have to actually deny that something is happening) rather than labelling them. But that might be effort and cause thought – probably not worth the risk.Report
Jason, yes, I should have clarified that, but I was actually clarifiying the invention claim in this post. I’m not accusing Sanchez of anything — he did state it was inadvertently improperly applied.Report
In the end, the only difference is that some of those guys might be more honest than McMegan – which wouldn’t be hard. I still think that she shouuld get a Michael Kelly award for the post she wrote the day after HCR passed (the one which complained about the ‘tyranny of the majority’).Report
@Barry, Is that the one where she complained that people who favored HCR did it mostly to piss off people like her?Report
Greece just got Junked by Moody’s.Report