Two weeks ago, the New York Times columnist wrote, “Whatever eventually happens, Kavanaugh was clearly a smarmy, smirking, entitled and mercenary guy; the odds that he had some kind of skeleton in his closet were pretty good.”
Today he expands on this, er, thought. He explains,
It’s perfectly possible for a man to lead a comfortable, indeed enviable life by any objective standard, yet be consumed with bitterness driven by status anxiety. . . .
I’ve spent my whole adult life in rarefied academic circles, where everyone has a good income and excellent working conditions. Yet I know many people in that world who are seething with resentment because they aren’t at Harvard or Yale, or who actually are at Harvard or Yale but are seething all the same because they haven’t received a Nobel Prize.
Krugman both went to Yale and taught there, and has a Nobel Prize. Doubtless that explains why he’s so well-adjusted and has such a charming look about him.