Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

I must say, this anniversary reminds me that people really should read Michael Kinsley's The Old New Republic rants about how inflation will come TO KILL US ALL ANY DAY NOW EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT THAT IT SHOULD!!!

They were truly amazing in their day. If you want my precis, I think this will do:

Kinsley's earlier article contains eighteen occurrences of "Krugman"--yet not a single link to... not a single quote from... Krugman.... One single link... quote from... Stuckler and Basu.... "Stuckler" did not appear... "Basu" did not appear in Kinsley's article at all.... And what is the connection of Stuckler and Basu's article to the never-quoted and never-linked to but mentioned-eighteen-times Paul Krugman? It is, Kinsley writes: "[Krugman] did not write the paper about how austerity kills, but it fits comfortably with everything else he’s been writing on the subject." In short: Krugman didn't write it, and I am too lazy to quote from anything Krugman did write, so I will say it "fits comfortably" with what he writes, and proceed as if Krugman did write it...

Kinsley: May 21, 2013 | May 16, 2013 | April 1, 2010

I see considerable moral fault here--moral fault that applies to Frank Foer, who was really not even trying to do his job as editor.