Ai Weiwei

WHAT GOES AROUND...In the ongoing discussion in Reader Response about Keynesian econom­ics, it is interesting how the far-right Tea Party group pushes the con­cept that government can do no good for the economy. Conser­vatives may not like the way FDRexpanded the social safety net, but it is hard to support the claim that his policies made the Depres­sion worse. When he was elected in 1932 the unemployment rate was estimated to be 23.6 percent; four years later it was 17 percent, which is still...