Ironic indeed. There's also a good bit of irony about the second topic in the article, climate change. Many on the left treat it as a religion, and don't care if the cure is more painful than the disease. They'd cut carbon emissions to "0" and deprive people in 3rd world countries of electricity, A/C and transportation. Krugman is guilty too of spreading Orwellian nonsense and paranoia. Like some Trump supporters, many on the left take his word as gospel, in Krugman's case because he has a Nobel Prize. You should take whatever he says about his specialty, trade, very seriously, and assume much of the rest is partisan hate mongering.
Originally Posted by Tiny
Paul Krugman is a polemicist and a partisan hack. I stopped taking his trade analysis seriously when he rejected the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He wet his fingers, held them up to gauge the political winds, and reversed decades of free-trade "convictions". (So did hildebeest, but at least she isn't an economist or a NYT columnist.)
The big irony in the climate change debate is the fact that science is always supposed to be open to new ideas, new theories, new research and new discoveries. Ptolemy v. Galileo. Newton v. Einstein. That's how civilization learns and progresses. People like Al Gore, who run around yelling "the science is settled", are idiots. "Settled science" is an oxymoron.
P.S. Al Gore received a D in Natural Sciences and a C- in Introductory Economics at Harvard. And he is the left's poster boy for climate change?