Gene Lyons

Idealism has taken a hit recently, and it's not the idealism of liberals or Democrats, either:

Last week’s ritual humiliation of former Federal Reserve chairman and free market guru Alan Greenspan by a committee of grandstanding congressmen would be sad if not so richly deserved. A free-market zealot as deluded as the woolliest Marxist English professor, Greenspan professed himself horrified by the gigantic Ponzi scheme constructed by Wall Street mortgage lenders and investment banks. Poor fellow, he’d evidently never paused to consider why banks need armed guards.

Greenspan should have given up on Randroidism when he reached adulthood.