What sweet vindication for one of our leading public intellectuals, who has braved firestorms of abuse from conservatives, and studied indifference from the media and political establishment, despite his very prominent platform on the NYT op-ed page.
Prepare to hear the Royal Swedish Academy written off as a bunch of Euro-Socialists, and for very serious news analysis wondering whether the Prizes have become (gasp!) politicized.
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I don’t know that the work Krugman won for directly informs his public opinionating, though the former certainly provides credibility to the latter.
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p> Here’s an informed summary of why he won.
Here and here are some nifty collections of choice wingnut responses.
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p>Blue ribbon so far goes to Roger Kimball, who manages to yoke Karl Marx, Yasser Arafat, Toni Morrison, and Barack Obama, into a Krugman rant.