He sided with Brill's generational attack against Brooks, and the goodness and wholesomeness of Brooks' Universalist Boomer Meritocracy.
He takes positions implicitly against Krugman and most all economists, frankly, especially older ones, as a profession.
He now cites a work like The Triumph of Injustice, as if it were a sudden suprise at the NYT to both him and the likes of Krugman or Friedman, Piketty, or Rodrik, Blow or Kristol, or God. This has been going on for decades now, but seldom called out by the NYT, which did not want something picayune like this domestic snaffoo to get in the way of rollercoaster liberal globalization.
He hasn't shot down globalization yet, I don't think, Thomas L Friedman's last bastion, but I suspect that he is gathering forces at its gate.
Liberace is really getting into Pundit Cannibal Confession Tar Baby Pariah Michael Pillsbury Neverland
His LIEO back is now bloody and to the wall, and he has been forced to turn and fight, and is rending whatever now crosses too close to his moonlit path in the twilight of the liberal pundit jungle.
Meanwhile, it feels safer, at very close quarters, when possible, to snap at, and rend, an older generation pundit predator, slower moving, easier prey, eyesight failing, than to directly turn on his own younger virile, vicious, alert, peers directly
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