WRITING A WEEK after the 2008 presidential election, New York Times columnist David Brooks tried to handicap the "fight over the future of conservatism." It would be a battle between "traditionalists," who want to "Cut government, cut taxes, restrict immigration," and "reformers," who agree with an Publication: The American Conservative

Paul Krugman, the hyper-partisan columnist for the New York Times, must have been a competent economist at one time. But those days are so far in the past that even Krugman apparently can no longer remember them. James Taranto documents the extent of Krugman's amnesia:

Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman takes note in his New York Times column of what he calls "the incredible gap that has opened up between the parties":

You can't make this stuff up. From today's New York Times Corrections section:

While free trade yields a net positive to every nation that participates in it to any degree, tough economic times call for even more robust worldwide trade. With a failing economy it becomes all the more important for a country to maximize the use of its own resources and minimize the cost of the resources it brings in.