Paul Krugman* is the most intellectually dishonest person I’ve ever known. That he is the darling of progressives says everything you need to know about progressives. See here for Ruth Marcus’s column.

* “Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman has the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults” (Daniel Okrent, “13 Things I Meant to Write About but Never Did,” The New York Times, 22 May 2005).