Business must be slow in those mountain caves where extremely clever people
concoct derivative securities (“the fourth derivative of an IOU,” as a Wall
Street quant once explained them to me). This, at any rate, is to judge
from the activity over at Gideon’s Blog
, where Noah Millman has been blogging up a storm.
Readers whose eye was caught by my piece on public intellectuals the other
day will enjoy reading Noah’s take on it (scroll down to Thursday, December
23). But all Noah’s stuff bears reading. If we’re doing year-end polls,
Noah gets my vote for thought-provokingness, or whatever that substantive
is.