In 2005 Dave Weeden was asked the following question:
Can you name a work of non-fiction which has had a major and lasting influence on how you think about the world?
He responded:
Koestler’s Reflections on Hanging. I was probably anti-capital punishment before I read it, but far more weakly than I am now.
Very early this morning, the very same Dave Weeden sent a Tweet to my co-blogger, Michael Ezra:
Either Dave has has changed his opinion or it is appropriate that his 2005 normblog profile was published on April Fools’ Day