• Unscrambling an egg 
David Roth, The Awl Capitalism  | Anything that speaks to an essential rottenness at the core of something one kind of likes and hasn't really thought all that much about, honestly, is going to make one feel bad, both about liking that thing and not noticing all that rot. And so the easy answers: thus the revelations of the economic collapse – that the market was not self-regulating, was not working, did not even make any [...] sense for the most part – lead to the reassuring self-righteousness of Randian fury or peevish CliffNotes Misesianism, which suggest that someone else – gross, grasping poors or stupid government – screwed up this objectively very good thing.   Published: 2010-10-22