…is the American way. Michael Barone reviews Megan McArdle’s new book, which I think has some similar themes to mine.

[Update a couple minutes later]

This bit is interesting:

Her advice is to avoid enterprises that are in long-term decline, such as General Motors starting in the 1970s. In business and public policy, try to learn from well-conducted experiments — but recognize that successful trials can’t always be replicated on a large scale.

I think that also applies to NASA human spaceflight as practiced for the past fifty years.