An Observation

by Will Wilkinson on October 1, 2007

While watching her interview with a fawning Jon Cusack, I realized that Naomi Klein is to Milton Friedman, a great humanitarian and intellectual she repeatedly slanders, something rather less than what Michael Behe is to Ronald Fisher. The difference is that Behe actually understands a good deal of biology while Klein is brazenly and outrageously ignorant of even basic economics. The great similarity is that both are fundamentally persons of faith.

Cusack sadly disgraces himself by not knowing any better.

[UPDATE: Tim Lee addresses some of Klein's scurrilous claims at Cato@Liberty.]

Tay Green

An Exceedingly Obscure Observation.

GilM

Ok, now that I've read this response to her book, I feel a little better.

Quent

Congrats, you've made yet another judgment.

Dale

I realize it's just an observation, but maybe throw a bone to the ignoranumses among us. The first time I ever heard of Naomi Klein was when I saw her on the Stephen Colbert Show. You know how that goes, hard to tell exactly what she's talking about there.

So if it's possible to do so in a nutshell, could you please explain your observation to someone who doesn't know a Naomi Klein from a Jon Cusack, but who does know a Michael Behe from a Richard Dawkins?