Ezra Klein: The Quiet Crook

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February 14, 2007

The Quiet Crook

Was browsing some old letters on The Atlantic's homepage and noticed their resident sensible libertarian economist-type Clive Crook getting his lunch handed to him on the subject of socialized health care. I've always loved The Atlantic's letters page because the authors actually answer their assailants. This attacker was pretty good, so I was interested to see Crook's response. Funny thing, though: He didn't respond. It's the only letter on the page that directly asks a question of an author but merits no reply. Wonder why that is...

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Comments

I remember that Clive Crook column; it was an amazing bit of hackwork. And yeah, I love their letters section too. A lot of the time, the exchange in the letters section is more informative than the original article.

Posted by: Tom Hilton | Feb 14, 2007 12:48:18 PM

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Posted by: fileenlarger | Feb 14, 2007 1:21:53 PM

Getting his lunch handed to him? Is that like when your argument gets crushed, and they subsequently institute a national health care plan that's great for you?

Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf | Feb 14, 2007 1:58:54 PM

When you wrote "some old letters" I thought you meant OLD letters. June 2006 counts for old? My, you 20-somethings sure do have an interesting perspective on life. I think the import of the Crook piece is that even in such staid old (and I do mean OLD) rags like the Atlantic, the take on any single-payer health plan is: marginalize, stigmatize, demonize.

Posted by: HBinBoston | Feb 14, 2007 2:13:18 PM

Clive is at again this month in The Atlantic. He talks about dime-a-day private, "for-profit" slum schools in the third world in an entirely credulous, one-source, show-and-tell story, with a subtext of such schools doing a better job than government-backed, publicly funded schools. It hardly even qualifies as journalism. Press release is more like it. What a wanker.

Posted by: Rick | Feb 14, 2007 2:51:25 PM

You've got to be kidding. The letter writer to the Atlantic is merely letting off a load of single-payer propaganda. Canadians wait unacceptably long for diagnostic tests, cancer treatment and a host of other maladies. Life Expectancy averages - as well as infant mortality rates - have little if anything to do with the quality of a health care system.

This stuff is all obvious to anyone who ask questions and thinks - unlike the wankers here on this site.

Posted by: Stuart Browning | Feb 14, 2007 5:50:03 PM

hi and welcome to the blog,

your stupid comments have been refuted dozens of times.

thanks for your participation.

the dude abides.

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