My goodness! Another Frumming at NRO! So Jim Manzi, a conservative/libertarian and a reasoned critic of cap and trade - who has been retained by NRO and is on the National Review board of trustees - has, by criticizing poor climate science arguments by neocon polemicist Mark Levin, become Public Enemy...
Last week at the NYT, Ross Douthat , himself stirred by Julian Sanchez's recent perception of a problem of "epistemic closure" (an ideologically sealed news and thought echochamber) on the Right , and threw down a gauntlet to conservative intellectuals: "Conservative domestic policy...
A few days ago I concluded that Jim Manz i’s lead essay in Cato Unbound's new climate issue exhibited rather weak “libertariarian sinews” . Allow me to note a few additional remarks on Manzi`s arguments. 1. It's clear from Manzi's essay that (i) he is actually quite concerned...
[UPDATE: See my follow-up post .] Cato Unbound's new climate issue features a lead essay by Jim Manzi , who is an MIT- and Wharton-trained statistician and CEO of Applied Predictive Technologies (which uses pattern recognition and optimization models for sales and marketing). Manzi is a newcomer...