“Happily, Helsinki is not all geopolitical excitement. It is also lumberingly omnipresent trams, for which I quickly come to feel something close to love.”
The Synod needs every bit of constructive help it can get. But mischaracterizing the Instrumentum is not helpful. Nor is raising the specter of Joachim of Fiore.
Brad DeLong’s expansive economic history is organized around a question: Why, despite constant innovation, haven’t we solved our deepest economic problems?