Without regard for civility or accuracy, econo-gadfly Paul Krugman will accuse conservatives of racism at the drop of a hat.\u00a0 In a recent NYT column he:<\/p>\n
Actually, it looks like Krugman and his colleagues in the Princeton Economics Department are not all that keen on racial diversity.\u00a0 Krugman may be happy to pose as the Great White Hope of America\u2019s non-white masses, but you are not likely to find black professors occupying offices down the hall from his.\u00a0 Despite the University\u2019s strong support for a demographically diverse faculty, the Princeton Economics Department has only one African American professor.<\/b>\u00a0 Of 61 faculty members listed on the Department\u2019s website, only one is black. That is 1.6%, whereas fully 8% of the undergraduate population was black in 2012.\u00a0 So much for faculty diversity.\u00a0 Not much has changed since the genteel, homogeneous days of F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920s.<\/p>\n
Princeton\u2019s President, in an expansive report on the virtues of diversity, intoned \u201cDiversity is . . . a precondition for academic excellence, institutional relevance, and national vitality. \u00a0Engagement with this issue is central, not tangential, to Princeton\u2019s mission and to the maintenance of its leadership in higher education.\u201d\u00a0 Well, it looks like Princeton\u2019s econ majors can forget about getting an \u201cacademically excellent\u201d education.\u00a0 They don\u2019t have much chance of taking an economics course from a black professor.\u00a0\u00a0 There is only one, and she is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, which means she doesn\u2019t have much time to teach undergraduates.<\/p>\n
What makes the Princeton Economics Department\u2019s nearly lily-white hew so ironic is that the Department is packed with Democratic Party stalwarts (Krugman, Alan Blinder, Alan Kreuger, Uwe Reinhardt), and the Democratic Party constantly lambasts Republicans for their alleged aversion to racial diversity.\u00a0 Never mind.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t get me wrong.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure some of Krugman\u2019s best friends are black. And, to recycle the lawyerly verbiage in Krugman\u2019s nasty NYT hit piece on Rep. Ryan, \u201cjust to be clear, there\u2019s no evidence that Mr. Krugman is personally a racist.\u201d\u00a0 He\u2019s just a hypocrite.<\/p>\n
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Without regard for civility or accuracy, econo-gadfly Paul Krugman will accuse conservatives of racism at the drop of a hat.\u00a0 In a recent NYT column he: Accused Paul Ryan of using a \u201cracist dog-whistle\u201d for making comments similar to Barack … Continue reading