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I'm just discovering for the first time that I am mentioned in Gene Epstein's book Econospinning, on page 215:

Those who love Krugman for his Bush bashing should not take his word on the economy, any more than those who hate him for it should reject everything he says on that topic. In the latter group, National Review on-line [sic] columnist Donald Luskin unfortunately makes it seem as though distaste for Krugman’s economic reportage must split along party lines (not true in my case, since I voted for Bush’s Democratic challengers both times).

I hadn't known of this previously because Epstein's book is so sloppily indexed that neither my name or that of National Review Online appears at all. Nice of Epstein to mention me at all, I suppose, considering the vast body of Krugman criticism I've produced, resulting in numerous substantive corrections in the Times, and preparing the way for his own picayune nit-picking. But I disagree that my criticisms have been partisan -- the facts are the facts, just as they are when Epstein presents them. And he only disqualifies himself by admitting that he voted twice for idiots. If he thinks he has any idea whom I voted for, he's just guessing -- or "mind reading," as Paul Krugman correctly accuses him of doing.

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