Duh, Krugman Smarter Than Me

NY Times columnist Paul Krugman says that the reason liberals outnumber conservatives in academy is because they’re all a bunch of creationist morons:

today’s Republican Party - increasingly dominated by people who believe truth should be determined by revelation, not research - doesn’t respect science, or scholarship in general.

Claremont points out that there are intelligent ways of addressing the relationship between revelation and reason. Here is another intelligent way to approach the issue. Krugman’s bizarre splenetic is not an intelligent way. Wow. What a moron.

Here is my previous post on academic bias.

UPDATE: David Brooks argues that conservatives are the ones having the substantive debate about ideas. Liberals rarely transcend being policy wonks:

When modern conservatism became aware of itself, conservatives were so far out of power it wasn’t even worth thinking about policy prescriptions. They argued about the order of the universe, and how the social order should reflect the moral order. Different factions looked back to different philosophers - Burke, Aquinas, Hayek, Hamilton, Jefferson - to define what a just society should look like.

Conservatives fell into the habit of being acutely conscious of their intellectual forebears and had big debates about public philosophy. That turned out to be important: nobody joins a movement because of admiration for its entitlement reform plan. People join up because they think that movement’s views about human nature and society are true.

Liberals have not had a comparable public philosophy debate. A year ago I called the head of a prominent liberal think tank to ask him who his favorite philosopher was. If I’d asked about health care, he could have given me four hours of brilliant conversation, but on this subject he stumbled and said he’d call me back. He never did.

Meanwhile, “philosophers” like Richard Rorty tell liberals that there’s no point discussing ideas. No wonder conservatives are running circles around the liberals, and why liberals are becoming increasingly incoherent.