Prizes for Stupidity
December 8, 2008
Lew: I sometimes think that the Pulitzer Prize – like the Nobel Peace Prize – IS awarded for stupidity. What is doubly-troubling about Neil’s article is that it was reprinted in H.L. Mencken’s paper, the Baltimore Sun.
Butler Shaffer was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, and Boundaries of Order. His latest book is The Wizards of Ozymandias.

