Derb – I hear you. In fact, Ramesh tells me that The Economist was fond of making much the same point for quite a while (that is, people without kids wouldn’t define the “long run” as terminating with their own funeral). But, surely the long-standing, empirically-tested, deep and profound rightwing objection to Keynesian economics would endure even if Keynes were not gay. After all the modern American conservative movement was arguably launched by the publication of Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom.” And, I’m pretty sure Hayek’s famous objections to Keynesianism weren’t based on the fact that they could replace one of the Village People with a Keynes impersonator. The fact that Keynes was gay might be relevant as to why he held the views he did. But they have nothing to do with why free-market conservatives think he was wrong. I mean, are homosexual conservatives slightly more sympathetic to priming the pump than non homosexual conservatives? Okay, that might sound like a bad choice of words, but you get my drift.