Already, that’s something pundits don’t usually confess error. Matthews’s piece opens with a confession that his expectations for the economy turned out to be incorrect. That, in itself, makes them stand out from so much of what gets published. They reflect perspectives that actual people actually hold.
They’re notable in that they both apply a grounded pragmatism to topics that are usually addressed either dogmatically or polemically. They’re both well-written, but that’s not quite it, either. The topics don’t overlap, so that’s not it. The second, by Lucas Mann, is a seldom-heard perspective on the so-called crisis of free speech at elite universities. The first, by Dylan Matthews, explains why he and many others initially guessed wrong on the path that inflation would take after the pandemic hit. On my lunch break yesterday, I ran across a couple of articles that struck me as unusually good, but it took until later in the day to figure out what was so special about them.
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