The Battle of Fort Wilson

A Shooting War over Price Controls between Revolutionary Americans in Philadelphia

The whole price-controls-and-inflation flap of last week is over, right? In fact, it may have gone by so fast that many of you missed it altogether? Economist Paul Krugman calling economist Isabella Weber’s ideas “stupid” (a devastating term of art in the dismal science)?

If it’s not ringing a lot of bells, excellent—I’m free to use that fleeting news s…