Good to have James back James Surowiecki, the only journalist who understands business (apart from Krugman, who's really a professor) left Slate where he could be read by millions to go to the New Yorker, where he is read by fewer people who probably don't understand all the numerically literate arguments he makes. The magazine does not understand the web, so my guess is this link will rot, but read this great article on Junior's protectionist, anti-consumer, and frankly, anachronistic boosterism of old-energy.