In this column Las Vegas writer Vin Suprynowicz discusses The Failure of the New Economics, a book Henry Hazlitt wrote in 1959 as a thorough refutation of Keynes’ General Theory.

Hazlitt showed that there was no economic thinking behind the Keynesian approach to the economy at all. It was simply a vague, intellectually intimidating excuse for expanding the size of the government. That’s emphatically true today.

Hazlitt’s most famous book, of course, is Economics in One Lesson, which Obamacrats avoid like vampires avoid garlic.