Can a Graphic Novel Change Housing Policy?
And other BBB podcasts
Since the holidays are coming up, let me point out that my Build, Baby, Build makes a fantastic stocking stuffer. Even toddlers enjoy the pictures, and anyone who can read will probably enjoy the arguments.
On the fence? Listen to my podcast with Mackinac Center’s Overton Window.
And check out Mackinac’s write-up. Here’s what I say about my favorite page in the book:
“When the bear says, ‘How am I losing to this guy?’ Yeah, that’s me,” Caplan says. The major benefits of lower housing costs can be drowned out by concerns that ought to matter less.
Still undecided? Here’s two more podcasts…
The use of Uncle Sam could have been better since not everyone sees the symbol as monstrous or villainous and many would see it as thematically opposed to creeping burearatic stiffling of entrepreneurial energies. It would have better to have portrayed Uncle Sam as possessed or under some kind of mind control or even fake (like a "wolf in sheep's clothing) with the real villain of the stop-everything slovenly, ugly, nasty bureaucrat having taken charge of the leviathan and casting the spell or pulling the strings.
Calling it a graphic novel might give people the wrong idea. 😉