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TOM SMITH: I?m not saying Paul Krugman is schizophrenic. ?Like most people, I regard people who su?

By Glenn Reynolds

TOM SMITH: I’m not saying Paul Krugman is schizophrenic. “Like most people, I regard people who suppose themselves to be greatly morally superior to others, especially when it seems if anything they are rather worse than most, a peculiarly obnoxious trait. K stands out in my mind as one of these people. . . . I have tried a little lately to get my arms around this idea of ‘I am really a kind of moral wonder; truly morally superior to most people’ sense that some people have, and how it relates to politics. Happily I don’t think it is a very widespread trait, but where you encounter it, it’s beastly.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 16, 2011 (boomark / email).