Must-Read: Robert Hall says somewhere that the MIT guys ret-conned the name of the first computer he programmed–CADET–to “can’t add: doesn’t even try” because decimal arithmetic was beyond it. And the age of Reagan–the seven fat years 1982-1989 of Robert Bartley–were a glorious time for America’s upper class. But the arithmetic needed to recognize that … Continue reading Must-Read: Matthew Yglesias: The Amazing Persistence of Reagan Derp