Saturday, May 28, 2005
Paul Krugman At Princeton
TigerHawk reports on Krugman’s recent talk at Princeton University. He was civil enough, even if his audience was rather embarrassingly silly:
[He] sympathized with a half dozen “questioners” who stood up and made speeches about the United States becoming an authoritarian country. One woman who looked about 60 claimed she “grew up in Stalin’s Russia” and that a lot of the things she saw in the United States today reminded her of Russia under Uncle Joe. Another perfectly respectable-looking member of the audience offered a long rant about the rise of fascism and compared the intimidation of the press in the United States today to the suppression of the press in Germany during the 1930s. Krugman politely deflected these questions with a smile, probably aware that some blogger would be all over him if he agreed. He did not, however, take issue with these people…
Posted on May 28, 2005 11:37 AM. Permalink 