CHANNELING ADAM SMITH? Newmark's Door quotes P. J. O'Rourke: "They want to be good in order to be better than other people. And they want to be better than other people in order to push the rest of us around." "I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good," notes Adam Smith. (Wealth of Nations, Book I, p. 478 of my well-worn Chicago Bicentennial Edition.)