Oh just for the record — before I go into a meeting here at NR NYC — I think I need to respond to a bunch of email about my earlier post. I do not think surrogate pregnancies should be subsidized, banned or anything like that. I can certainly imagine the need for regulation though. But Thomas Frank is quite a bit more of a statist than I am. I have no problem with him shaming anybody, but when he usually tears into the market over issues X, Y and Z, I assume him to be suggesting that we shouldn’t let the market decide X or Y or Z. This time, if his position is that the market is bad but there’s nothing to be done about it, he should say so. Because his default position is hardly laissez-faire.