Richard A. Epstein, the influential coronavirus contrarian, is the second worst person with that surname, but he's making a bid for the top spot. Chotiner's interview with him is, as one would expect, an intellectual slaughter.
If you think Richard A. Epstein's views on the coronavirus are wild, wait till you read him on the New Deal or civil rights.
"Law and economics": right-wing law professors, with little expertise in economics, using jargon from that discipline to provide arguments for Republican judges to justify politicized decisions. It's been a highly successful grift & not surprising its shaping coronavirus policy
