I'll answer that one

"Presented with the wretches of Enron, price-rigging, industrial spying and other corporate malfeasance, would Adam Smith still wish to argue on behalf of his Invisible Hand?"

MMMMMmmmm . . . I'll take "yes."

LAGuy adds: You left out the best part from this barely-thought-out essay. In noting the great ideas that have been undone lately, Epstein lists "Marxism and Freudianism, with Darwinism perhaps next to tumble."

So Epstein is another one of the crackpots who think Darwin is in trouble. The irony is he's writing about how the thorny facts can hurt beautiful theories, but doesn't understand that the facts back evolution while the opposition is almost entirely based on the how the theory bothers people.