[Scalia Rules]

1) The rejoinder to Hobbes IS game theory. A stateless society, contra Hobbes, is not a zero-sum game, but more of a hawk-dove game, where cooperation in the norm.

2) Robert Wright is a pretentious bore. Like Tom Friedman of the NY Times, he is much smarter than the average journalistic pundit, but at the same time way way overrated. Only a fews hours after the attacks on the morning of Sept. 11, he's up on Slate.com saying "s=See, see, see everybody, this PROVES we don't need National Missile Defense."

[NonZeroSum]

Robert Wright is a pretentious bore. Like Tom Friedman of the NY Times, he is much smarter than the average journalistic pundit, but at the same time way way overrated. Only a fews hours after the attacks on the morning of Sept. 11, he's up on Slate.com saying "s=See, see, see everybody, this PROVES we don't need National Missile Defense."

I don't agree with everything that he writes, and I particularly don't agree with that, but I do like his books, "The Moral Animal," and "Non-Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny." I don't always agree with him, but I rarely find him boring.