The return of a plague on both your houses. Part 5: mutant Democrats and where they come from

A plague on both your houses no.5: Mutant Democrats

In his otherwise illuminating account of social change at the top of American society, which I quoted in my last essay, Paul Krugman only briefly touches on the causes of the change. And there is something paradoxical and rather symptomatic about the way he does it.( Read more... )