… if the financial crisis didn’t do it, nothing will.

Paul Krugman’s Delusions of Reason:

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And don’t even get me started on climate change.

The truth is that the modern GOP is deeply anti-intellectual, and has as its fundamental goal not just a rollback of the welfare state but a rollback of the Enlightenment. Yet there are some wannabe intellectuals who delude themselves into believing that they have aligned themselves with the party of objective (as opposed to Objectivist) analysis.
You might think that the election debacle would force some reconsideration

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