I'm not the only person who thinks Paul Krugman¹ is intellectually dishonest. Krugman is an unreconstructed New Dealer who hates everything Republican. He has particular disdain for Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, so he flat-out lies about them. He is a disgrace to academia.

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¹"Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman has the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults" (Daniel Okrent, "13 Things I Meant to Write About but Never Did," The New York Times, 22 May 2005).