Playing The Odds

by Patrick Appel

Yglesias is "a lot more open to the view that Barack
Obama is secretly a Muslim than to the view that the spirits of dead
people can return in certain situations." Douthat differs:

[W:]hereas I would happily stake most of my net worth on the premisethat Barack Obama is not, in fact, a secret Muslim, I wouldn't riskmuch money at all on the proposition that ghosts do not exist. That'snot because I'm a huge believer in haunted houses: It's just that Ithink I have an excellent...