Sullivan on Krugman

Max B. Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Mon Jan 21 16:41:46 PST 2002


My love for PK knows no equal, but Sullivan's attack was limper than cafeteria spaghetti.

Even more stupid was a remark by Virginia Postrel to the effect that Enron's collapse had something to do with the fact that the company consisted of a bunch of people sitting in front of computer screens.

It seems that to be a successful public intellectual you really have to be stupid, or write as if everyone else is.

PK has written some pretty good columns, a bunch of tedious ones that recycle some textbooky point, and a couple of vicious ones where he attacks people of whom he has no knowledge. I can live with him. I have yet to see a column by Robert Barro that wasn't pathetic.

-- mbs

Rare indeed that you find someone who calls his own writings a "smear"... But perhaps Andrew Sullivan has more self-knowledge than most conservatives.



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