Wednesday assorted links
2. Cass Sunstein on liberalism (New Yorker). Often Chotiner interviews are very good, but this one I felt was quite unfair, the cancel culture game all over again. Cass praises Hayek, and Chotiner responds by noting a poor and apparently racist attitude of Hayek’s. If someone said they were a Keynesian economist, would your first reaction be to ask about Keynes’s anti-Semitism? Especially in a short interview. Chotiner also uses the spousal card against Cass, and Cass’s unwillingness to speak ill of a dead acquaintance (and yes that is the right word here) against him. So I expect better than this.
3. WSJ covers Thiel on the Antichrist. Some of the theologians do not like the competition.
4. NFL teams are punting less (WSJ). As economists have been recommending for some while.