A windmill Tabarrok is
Delong thinks the WSJ article and Prof. Tabarrok's post are about:What did the New Deal do to relieve economic distress--i.e., was the New Deal a failure?They're not. The WSJ article is about Hoover being a tool and Roosevelt prolonging the depression (which isn't to say the New Deal, on net, was a bad thing). Tabarrok's post was about neither of those things. We live on a strange, strange planet.