The most distressing thing I find, right now, about trying to do any sort of discussion of policy, is that everything is political, even the truth. There just is no ‘non-political’ truth.
When I took the job at the ‘Times’, I expected to be spending a lot of time discussing serious debates; things where there really are two sides. These days I find myself saying that two plus two really does equal four, and being called an extreme leftist for saying so. It really is a sad thing.
— Paul Krugman, On ‘Non-Political’ Truth
