Econ 210a: Fall 2006: Memo Question for November 22
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A Nomination for This Year's Stupidest Men Alive Contest

A correspondent nominates William Sjostrum, who trashes the excellent and thoughtful Ian Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam without having read it:

AtlanticBlog: November 2006 Archives: Theodore Dalrymple reviews Ian Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance. I have not yet read Buruma's book, so I cannot comment on its accuracy, but I find it interesting that Dalrymple tempers his praise for the book by criticizing its political correctness...

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