To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes:
"Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile;
So ere you find where light in darkness lies,
Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes."
It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
Day By Day
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Freaking Out Over Freakonomics
Bret Stephens has an excellent piece in the WSJ on the objections to global warming hysteria raised by the authors of "Superfreakonomics" and the, well..., hysterical reaction to them on the part of Al Gore's "little helpers".
