In the wildest of today's Conservative Easter effusions,
Ross Douthat, Apostolic Nuncio to 42nd Street, opines that
IN the season of resurrection, it’s fitting that he’s with us once again — bearded, prophetic, moralistic, promising to exalt the humble and cast down the mighty from their thrones.
Yes, that’s right: Karl Marx is back from the dead.
I'd like to say
I scooped Douthat on this one, but truth is it's not really news except the bodily resurrection part, and I totally missed the lede anyway, which is about the French economist Thomas Piketty, whose newly translated
Capital in the Twenty-First Century is causing [jump]
