So there’s this in response to this, which commented on this, which itself was a response to a whole lot of 10-year retrospectives on Katrina, some of which are full of motivated reasoning and some of which combine a pretty good empirical base and caution about drawing policy conclusions. ((At first glance, there is far too little material on the ten years since Katrina that is historically informed, but that can be remedied.)) And then the following from this: “reading his post reminded me how much more I enjoy debating within the family rather than debating with folks who will fundamentally oppose [my preferred policy position] regardless of what the data says.”
My impression: when I have my wits about me, I let everyone live down their mistakes du jour because I commit plenty of my own. But it certainly is a mistake to imply to independent observers that you want to work in a bubble or write in a bubble.