APPARENTLY, MY “MAKERS AND TAKERS” COLUMN SUCKS, and I should kill myself or something.

UPDATE: Reader Tad Wert writes: “You might as well give up. When your critics start throwing “nuance” at you, you know they’re not hearing a word you’re saying.” Well, mostly I’m surprised that a professor of political science seems entirely ignorant of Mancur Olson.

Also, see my Is Democracy Like Sex? piece, though in retrospect I think I was a bit too optimistic there. [Link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!]

ANOTHER UPDATE: Bill Quick is less surprised.