“The Economist” reviewed the book “Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don’t And Why.” Undergraduates were shown photos of 50 chief executives from the Fortune 1000 list. Half were from the most profitable groups and half from the least profitable. The undergraduates were asked to judge, on looks alone, which executives had qualities such as competence and dominance. Remarkably, the students tended to pick out those executives who led...

Not surprisingly, the Wall Street Journal ran a front page feature yesterday reporting that workers are leaving the largest cities in droves and taking their jobs with them. When Congress passed the tax reform act that eliminated the deductibility of state and local taxes from federal returns, it set the stage for an exodus that has yet to be fully appreciated by the high-tax states that are about to lose massive revenues, not just from...