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In Strange Company  If you are an elevated and a complicated
thinker, you cannot control what will happen when your ideas
rain down upon the lesser mortals below, soaking the just and
the unjust alike. One can certainly understand why Marx was
exasperated enough to say he wasn't a Marxist, and Freud to have
denied he was a Freudian. The twentieth-century Protestant
theologian Karl Barth is reported once to have exploded--he was
given to explosions--that he wasn't a Barthian. It is
particularly difficult to straighten people out if you are dead.
Back before monetarism and the sudden sweep to the supply side,
when American economists would say, "We are all Keynesians now,"
one could imagine John Maynard Keynes wanting to say, from his
grave across the Atlantic, that he wasn't one. And I have a
picture in my mind—the reason f