Controversies
Caplan wrote an essay entitled "Columbus: The Far Left is Dead Right" to explain why his agreement with the far-left on Christopher Columbus was unusual. Caplan decried some of Columbus's defenders for engaging in cultural relativism to defend his policies of mass enslavement.
In April 2010, he caused controversy with a blog post that argued that women were more free in the 1880s than they are in the 21st century. This post led Bradford DeLong to call Caplan "the stupidest man alive".
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