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Here's a classic example of how a sense of inferiority drives collectivists to a bleak world-view in which the only solution is to give the inferior one and his political cronies the "power" to "do something." Today Paul Krugman -- once described by Newsweek as "gnomish," who once said of himself "I am just not imposing enough in person to be inspiring (if I were only a few inches taller ...)," and who is constantly talking about "little people" (here, here, here, here, and here) -- gripes in a New York Times column today that the "U.S. population is currently at the bottom end of the height distribution in advanced industrial countries."

"This is not a trivial matter," he assures us, confessing that he himself is only 5'7" -- believe me, that's in elevator shoes (I've met him).

The cause? Of course he has no idea at all, but one suspects he thinks the problem would go away under the kind but stern hand of Democratic leadership. He says only,

our relative shortness, like our low life expectancy, suggests that something is amiss with our way of life. A critical European might say that America is a land of harried parents and neglected children, of expensive health care that misses those who need it most, a society that for all its wealth somehow manages to be nasty, brutish ? and short.

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