Amusing to see you're catching up with the New York Times. We were talking about it here on HN at least 5 years ago because of a NYT article: https://news.ycomb

Amusing to see you're catching up with the New York Times. We were talking about it here on HN at least 5 years ago because of a NYT article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1604583 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1604583 and the oldest comment I found about it was from 2009, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782767#up_783224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782767#up_783224 . 10 years ago is when Shoup's book 'The High Cost of Free Parking' came out, and it's unlikely that what you remember from Reason is older than that. Indeed, searching the Reason archive, the oldest reference I found was from 2009, at https://reason.com/archives/2009/02/27/a-better-new-new-deal/1 https://reason.com/archives/2009/02/27/a-better-new-new-deal... , in reference to Shoup's book. Shoup wrote on op-ed in in the NYT in 2007 (see http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/opinion/29shoup.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/opinion/29shoup.html?_r=0) and a search finds Shoup talking about it in the NYT in 1980, at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E03E0D81038E732A25754C1A9609C94619FD6CF http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E03E0D81038E... . So it doesn't sounds like Reason was significantly ahead of the times enough to be snarky about.