"Like the elderly Jewish lady who thinks someone must be Jewish because 'he's so nice,' liberals suspect that a writer as amiable as [David] Brooks must be a liberal at heart. Some conservatives think so too."
-Michael Kinsley, taking down Brooks' new book (which I still want to read anyway) in the Times book review section. Liberals, of course, also feel the same way about John McCain, leading to all this Kerry/McCain ticket nonsense.
But would the Times allow a slam of one of Krugman's books to run in its own pages?
Posted by Stephen Silver at May 25, 2004 07:34 AM