Nicholas Kristof, a Pulitzer Prize winner, writes in his New York Times: column

What matters is improving opportunities and quality of life, and the best path to do that is a relentless empiricism — which clashes with the West Coast’s indifference to the laws of economics….What is needed is less purity and more pragmatism and  first step must be the humility to acknowledge our failures.”

Editors’ note: This is all true – but even Kristof doesn’t diagnose or acknowledge the full extent of the dysfunction of progressive governance. Yes, over-regulation of housing is a problem.

But what about drugs? What about confiscatory taxes? What about the miserable schools? What about the lawlessness thanks to leftist prosecutors? What about the anti business culture?