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Lawyers, Guns and Money — Is Amity Shlaes stupid, dishonest, lazy, or all of the above? As a somewhat-related bonus, this is also good: Paul Krugman Sets the Bar Far too Low... ...when he says that Keynes's greatness is illustrated by the fact that he understood things that George F. Will does not. A six year old child could write more intelligent columns about economics than George F. Will. The fact that Fred Hiatt has not yet fired George F. Will and replaced him with a six year old child is yet another piece of the wreckage of the crashed-and-burned Washington Post ...

On the job
The Sideshow — ... explaining why Keynes makes more sense than George F. Will or Amity Shales, and there's more take-down of Shales at The Edge of the American West, all via ...

Amity Shlaes Schooled on Roosevelt by 92 Year Old
Open Left - Front Page — Driving home from work I endured NPR's inexplicable decision to give Jonah Goldberg airtime to admit that it is "more fun" for conservative pundits to be out of power (actually, I agree, it is more fun having Jonah out of power.  Conservatives breaking the Planet isn't fun). But the next program was much better.  It featured well known New Deal revisionist Amity Shlaes going head-to-head with Jonathan Alter (author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope) on the subject of the New Deal and Great ...