FW: An Ode To Douglass, Not Doug

[Brad DeLong]

>  > It *does* depend on whether politics is supposed to be a place for
>>  self-expression or an attempt to make the world a little bit better,
>>  doesn't it?  Breaking Starbucks windows, not voting for the leftmost
>>  of the candidates who might win, and making political alliances with
>>  those who prefer Fidel Castro's brand of "democracy" to ours--these
>>  are all ways to move the world a little bit further to the right.
>>
>>  But they may make the expressive actors feel better inside, and this
>>  *is* the age of narcissism, after all...
>>
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>
>The black-clad window-breakers have done more to derail the multilateral
>trade agenda than Barney Frank ever has...
>
>Seth

You must not be looking at the international trade numbers...

Brad DeLong