By Alexander Green Readers wasted no time sounding off last week about a 2016 Harvard Institute of Politics poll that found the majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in this country are opposed to capitalism.
Some blamed the nation’s underwhelming public education system.
But sometimes it’s basic common sense that’s in short supply.
Take Paul Krugman, for example.
Krugman is a distinguished professor of economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, a former professor of economics at MIT and Princeton University, and a columnist for The New York Times.
No one would call him uneducated.
Yet his biweekly columns are filled with bizarre misstatements of …read more
