My first conversation with Megan McArdle was in Bryan Caplan’s kitchen. Within four minutes she was was calling card check a “moral atrocity” and speaking of the secret ballot like it had personally smuggled her grandparents out of Nazi Germany. This was years before she began dating Peter Suderman. So let me say this: Her opinions may frequently be terrible, but they are sincerely held. And Peter Suderman, whatever his past affiliations, has always struck me as much more interested in movies and much less interested in crushing the working man than Megan. So all of this conspiracy mongering is pretty backwards.