I guess he woke up. I just wish more people would, efore this whole country goes to you know where...
Milton Friedman turned me into an economic conservative, too.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a person’s having accepted ideas that seemed plausible, and then changed his mind when the ideas were proved wrong. The problem is with people who won’t change their minds when they’re proved wrong.
Affirmative action is a good example: there’s nothing practically (as opposed to philosophically) wrong with the idea that giving preferences to X-type of people will help X-type of people. However, to cling to the idea once the overwhelming evidence proves the contention is false is either evil or deranged.