Emily Oster: The Broken Child. The Missionary
Stop being a missionary, Emily. And then, once you climb off that perch, we'll talk about "amnesty."
This story is about “pandemic amnesty.” It is another preamble to the upcoming article about my interview with Charles Eisenstein. I decided to break things down into separate topics instead of sending a War and Peace about everything in the universe (which is what our interview turned out to be, given the intellectual inclinations of both Charles and myself.)
By now, everyone and their dog has heard of Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University and a self-identifying “data-based parenting expert” who has published a rather inept and insulting article in the Atlantic, calling for what sounds to me like very selective “pandemic amnesty.”
Indulgences for patricians
From her ivory tower—where she hangs out with other like-minded establishment-approved wobblyfolk—Emily asks to pardon the clean establishment-minded people like herself who didn’t know because they mocked any readily available data that contradicted their dogmatic be…
