Although I often disagreed with Wanniski, I always enjoyed reading him and often benefited from his insights. Wanniski was the rarest of creatures willing to follow whatever path the truth lead him down, even it if might offend friends and patrons, and he was the model of an “outside the box” thinker. How may other supply-siders and Steve Forbes supporters championed Louis Farrakhan? The world of ideas got a little bit more boring today.