Fear Of Complexity

I didn't mention Peggy Noonan's column last week because I didn't agree with it. Turns out she didn't either:

I do wish I'd been explicit in saying: I believe liberals in fact enjoy the complexity, not only because they love government--love to obsess on it, and think it is the last best hope of man on Earth--but because complexity justifies big government. Big complex question. Big complex response. Laws and rumors of laws.

"Big complex response" is just what you don't need. As law professor Richard Epstein argues, you need Simple Rules for a Complex World.