Much Bigger Than The Shutdown: Niall Ferguson's Public Flogging Of Paul Krugman

...Paul Krugman is a primary perp in the popular distillation of frenzy in our era of political economic discourse. Shame now is on him, and on his editors, for debauching contemporary journalistic standards with so much unfit to print.

Now Niall Ferguson has court-martialed Paul Krugman for intellectual high crimes and misdemeanors, administering a long overdue public flogging. Ferguson also, conveniently, has disposed of “Krugman’s plovers” … who henceforth deserve to be known by that fine diminutive, befitting their very diminutive stature....