Our fearless SAIS leader of old crops up in this week’s Economist as something more hawkish than a hawk, hence “Paul Wolfowitz, velociraptor”. Here is a PDF version of the article, (728K) which The Economist sadly opted not to place online; I’m sure they won’t mind this little PDF–you all have subscriptions anyway, right? My only comment on the article is that it makes Wolfowitz sound… articulate and charming.

This week’s issue also reviews a new book by Jagdish Bhagwati (p.68), whose Protectionism was one of my epiphanies at SAIS and which should be distributed free to every proto-anarchist who still thinks third world workers are better off unemployed as first-world labor unions protect their markets against competition from cheaper and better manufacturing imports. There was a “spontaneous” demonstration here in the East Village last weekend during the World Economic Forum, but to the obvious disappointment of some protestors they weren’t persecuted by the NYPD. This timeless Monty Python line comes to mind: “DENNIS: (Calling) Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I’m being repressed!”