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Posted at 2:47am on Nov. 1, 2007 Taking Apart Paul Krugman

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Brink Lindsey does the honors and performs his task remarkably well. At the end of his post, Krugman's arguments and his thesis are rightly viewed as being in tatters.

Pay particular attention to the following passage written by Lindsey:

In these clips we see, not subtlety or insight or analytical ingenuity, but the Manichean worldview of the true believer: one mass political movement, defined by its noble intentions, accomplishes unalloyed good, while a rival mass political movement, motivated by base and selfish values, works to undo that good.

Much of the critiques of George W. Bush, of course, revolve around the contention that he too holds Manichean views of just about every topic under the sun. Interesting then that Krugman lives up--or down--to the popular portrayal of the very President he so ardently despises.

Oh, and I am not sure that Krugman is all that smart, given that his arguments are so easily deconstructed. Then again, perhaps it is just that his intellectual talents do not lend themselves to punditry. I consider it a possibility as well that Krugman may be just as smart as Lindsey describes him, but so tremendously dishonest that his shading of the truth is called out with the greatest of ease.

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