Where Does Bush Hating New York Times columnist Paul Krugman vacation?
In France, of course. The Guardian interview has other interesting bits. Oliver Burkeman shows us, without intending to, I am sure, that Krugman is a reactionary. The world has changed and he doesn’t like President Bush’s attempts to cope with that change. In this, the Princeton professor shows an intellectual close-mindedness all too common in his profession. If you have tenure, you can ignore unwelcome facts, or, as Krugman does, rage against the bringer of bad news. You can even, if you have tenure, hold views that are nutty without any penalty. Here, according to Burkeman, are some of the ideas that Krugman holds about President Bush: “The first three pages of Kissinger’s book sent chills down my spine,” Krugman writes of A World Restored, the 1957 tome by the man who would later become the unacceptable face of cynical realpolitik. Kissinger, using Napoleon as a case study – but also, Krugman believes, implicitly addressing the rise of fascism in the 1930s – describes what happens
