Galbraith lives

I've been thinking about John Kenneth Galbraith lately, and wishing he were still here to comment on our current economic crisis. Today's issue of Paper Cuts , a blog about books, written by the editors of the New York Times Book Review, features Galbraith, and reminded me of his famous quote: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. "