My older son has not been reading enough lately. He is 16, just started driving, plays quite a bit of video games, and thinks that young women are very quickly becoming worth looking at.

Idle hands....The devil's workshop, and all that.

So I bought a copy of Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson, gave it to him.

He read it in an afternoon (which isn't hard; it is ONE LESSON, after all).

He comes up to me the next day, and that, "That book really seemed simple."

I was a bit miffed; "Those are complicated ideas...."

He interrupts: "I didn't say simple-minded. I meant simple like...inarguably true."

Happy sigh for ol' Dad. I'll die someday. But good ideas, the really good ideas, are immortal.