Freakonomist Has New Column

Recommended new column: Freakonomics goes to NYT. Here's the debut. How can you not like a reading like this:

"Chen is a hyperverbal, sharp-dressing 29-year-old with spiky hair. The son of Chinese immigrants, he had an itinerant upbringing in the rural Midwest. As a Stanford undergraduate, he was a de facto Marxist before being seduced, quite accidentally, by economics. He may be the only economist conducting monkey experiments..."