Matt Stoller has a post over at Blogging of the President entitled, “Daniel Drezner, The Mediocre Reasonable Conservative.” I’m going to reprint the bulk of it here so no one can claim anything was taken out of context: It really…

As I mentioned earlier, I try to act like a sponge, absorbing as much information as possible so my opinion will be as informed as possible. I think we should all try to act like sponges. Of course, we’re not sponges, we’re humans. And huma…

UCLA professor Mark A. R. Kleiman uses some pointed blogger critiques of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and Chicago professor Daniel Drezner to make interesting points about the clash of expertise and amateur observation on the Web. Separately, …

Brad DeLong is pissed off: Daniel Drezner screams and leaps, fangs bared, for Paul Krugman’s jugular. However, he trips over a tree root and falls off a cliff…. Misrepresent somebody [Krugman] as saying something they did not say. Attack them…

Mark A. R. Kleiman: Experts and amateurs Mark Kleiman firmly criticizes Dan Drezner for his disagreement with Brad DeLong about Dan Drezner’s criticism of Paul Krugman, driven by Dan Luskin’s

Mark A. R. Kleiman: Experts and amateurs Mark Kleiman firmly criticizes Dan Drezner for his disagreement with Brad DeLong about Dan Drezner’s criticism of Paul Krugman, driven by Dan Luskin’s

Whoa, blogging isn’t all fun and games. It gets pretty serious when you start questioning people’s professional credibility, particularly when those people happen to be highly-respected academics. Mark Kleiman provides an excellent play-by-…