Oldie/Goodie

Writing letters to the editor is one of my weird hobbies. A couple years back I wrote to the New Yorker in response to a long-form piece they’d published about the opioid crisis in West Virginia, and they published my response. (Scroll to the fourth letter for mine.)

Following the publication of this letter, for a short period of time I received unsolicited emails from left-wing amateur economists in various parts of the country, who’d taken the time to google me in order to dig up my contact information. I’m grateful to them for being as weird as me.