Prof. O'Rourke holds the Hunter S. Thompson Chair of Gonzo Literature. He's also a libertarian in good standing. He makes a rather mundane point in his inimitable style:
"The free market is not an ideology or a creed or something we're supposed to take on faith, it's a measurement. It's a bathroom scale. I may hate what I see when I step on the bathroom scale, but I can't pass a law saying I weigh 160 pounds. Authoritarian governments think they can pass that law—a law to change the measurement of things."
~P.J. O'Rourke quoted in today's WSJ
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