"All those Paul Krugman haters out there" have something new to complain about, said Frank James in The Swamp. The Princeton professor and New York Times columnist has won a Nobel Prize in economics for his groundbreaking work on trade patterns. Krugman is one of the Bush administration's "most persistent liberal critics," and this should serve as a reminder that he's also "one of the smartest."
OK, so Krugman is "highly respected by credible economists," said Kevin D. Williamson in National Review Online. But the timing—choosing a "predictably angry liberal" near the election that will decide Bush's successor—raises the question of whether "the award was largely political."
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