Last Call author Dan Okrent discusses alcohol prohibition with Jon Stewart.  (HT Bob Ewing)  (See also this EconTalk podcast that Russ did with Okrent.)

Here’s a letter to the Los Angeles Times:

Scientists are disappointed that, contrary to candidate Obama’s promises, what the nation actually is getting from President Obama is “a culture of politics trumping science” (“Scientists expected Obama administration to be friendlier,” July 11).

One of today’s finest science writers, Matt Ridley, reviews Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion.  Pretty telling stuff.

Bob Higgs, in today’s Washington Times, describes the current recovery: “the recovery has been not only ‘jobless,’ but hollow – like a pinata with no candy inside.”