Koan, now you're just arguing from authority. I don't doubt that Krugman is intelligent, or that he is degreed, or that he would be a scintillating guest at a dinner party. But this is entirely beside the point.
My contention is that he creates a straw man righty that he then proceeds to dismantle, instead of understanding the diversity and complexity of opinion on the right. And second, despite his intelligence and native curiosity, this is an area of inquiry on which he is willfully ignorant. Third, what does his book really improve about the human condition? So another person makes another loud declaration of his "side" in the pointless right/left debate. So what? Nobody's opinion will get changed by it, least of all yours.
As for mathematics...well, since you decided to personalize our little debate, I studied it because it was my worst subject, the one that came least readily to me, and thus the one I was most determined to master. My true intellectual passions are in art, music, and literature. |
