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Frank Rich is an indispensable ethical voice in American civic life! 

An American Public Intellectual with the cosmopolitan courage and understanding that an artist, too, has the capacity and the obligation, through their work, to illuminate all aspects of the human endeavor. That Mr. Krugman has the sagacity to remind his audience that Economics is a branch of ethics, and draws its very existence from the thought of the great moralist/ethicist/economist Adam Smith, and his unfulfilled, but commendable, project of a Science of Man. Demonstrating the indispensable notion of the primacy of sensibility and sentiment, in the growth of our individual and civic conception of morality and politics: and deepening our understanding of the vicissitudes of a marketplace, that we find ourselves in, as human and humane actors. Mr. Krugman shows us a direction for our aspiration to the good, if we but take it.       

Here is The Good Doctor (TGD) doing his Peronist caudillo turn, for our intellectual edification! The aimless political world needs the interpretive brio of our little authoritarian, to explain the political prestidigitation, of the master politician Barack Obama, who wins even as he loses? TGD shouts because that is his way; a lamentable but necessary strategy, to deal with the ignorant and the politically tone deaf. All the active participants of The American Political Melodrama at the least have walk-on parts, his narrative prominently features clueless Democrats of all stripes, but the left is his primary target, it’s handy and even the President favors a healthy disrespect for its professional wing. Neo-Conservative political chatter is both readable and quotable, sharing that quality with the unforgettable literary prose of the late, lamented Jacquiline Susann.