Congestion Pricing: Ryan Avent Takes Slate and Matt DeBord to Econ 1 School

Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?

This is, I think, yet another example of the global Slate failure: they tried to copy Michael Kinsley's early New Republic trick of attracting readers by being contrarian and edgy and counterintuitive. But when Kinsleyism worked--which wasn't always, and which got rarer and rarer over time--the primary source of its success wasn't that it was contrarian and edgy and counterintuitive, but that it was smart. And Slate has found that it is a lot...