Newsweek doesn't chilipunk Munger

Mike Munger got a brief shoutout in Newsweek.

Columnist George F. Will wrote about the Libertarian Party's resurgence in the 2008 elections:

It has recruited 600 down-ballot candidates around the nation (including Michael Munger, chairman of the political-science department at Duke, who is running for governor of North Carolina) and expects to have 1,500 by Election Day.

On his blog, Munger writes that he got a call from Will before the column ran:

George called me last week, and we got to talk for a second. He wanted to make sure I was really running, since it is "irrational."

I pointed out that, as a Cubs fan, George Will is just as irrational as a Libertarian, and maybe more so. He acknowledged that there is some truth in that.

Well played, Munger.