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Was it too much to hope that one of them would have wit enough to suggest—not knowing the real answer—that Keynesianism was the “ism” whereby Abel died? Alas, it was.

Bishop Nevin Hayes of Chicago comes closest to humor in Dinesh D’Souza’s devastating “The Bishops as Pawns,” in the Fall issue of Policy Review. When D’Souza, during their discussion of the American economy, mentions marginal tax rates, Bishop Hayes does not know what D’Souza is talking about. (True, most people cannot describe marginal taxation, though their behavior indicates they “understand” it instinctively.) When D’Souza next asks a cruelly difficult question about the bishop’s familiarity with the principle underlying supply-side economics, Say’s Law, Bishop Hayes replies: “How do you spell that? Is it like Murphy’s Law?”

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Was it too much to hope that one of them would have wit enough to suggest—not knowing the real answer—that Keynesianism was the “ism” whereby Abel died? Alas, it was.

Bishop Nevin Hayes of Chicago comes closest to humor in Dinesh D’Souza’s devastating “The Bishops as Pawns,” in the Fall issue of Policy Review. When D’Souza, during their discussion of the American economy, mentions marginal tax rates, Bishop Hayes does not know what D’Souza is talking about. (True, most people cannot describe marginal taxation, though their behavior indicates they “understand” it instinctively.) When D’Souza next asks a cruelly difficult question about the bishop’s familiarity with the principle underlying supply-side economics, Say’s Law, Bishop Hayes replies: “How do you spell that? Is it like Murphy’s Law?”