The Ingrown Intellect

Mickey Kaus has a good review of Paul Krugman's latest, which starts with a quote from George Orwell in service of an argument the exact opposite of what Orwell was saying. Krugman is either breathtakingly ignorant or breathtakingly dishonest, since the quote was written against Orwell's fellow socialists who opposed the Second World War.

I think this may be the danger implied in the phrase, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Or, as the Book of Mormon puts it, "O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men! When they are learned they think they are wise."