A Modest Proposal?
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008Last week, I followed a link from Marginal Revolution to a satirical blog post in The Atlantic by Megan McArdle, titled simply “A Modest Proposal”. Many of the readers assumed that McArdle was being serious, and much confusion ensued.
McArdle herself was excerpting a piece by Joe Weisenthal, which was clearly marked as satire with a [...]