Daron Acemoglu Is Kryptonite to Clear Thought
18th October 2012
When Steve Sailer does a takedown, he doesn’t hold back.
Some celebrated thinkers are so dumb that even when they are more or less right in their politics, they drive the thinking man crazy with their amazing ability to come up with stupid examples for what ought to be easy positions to validate. MIT economist Daron Acemoglu is making himself the Malcolm Gladwell of the 2010s, with a nearly infallible nose for sniffing out the worst possible argument and then putting it forward triumphantly.
Now, I know nothing about Daron Acemoglu (other than that he’s Turkish, as his name makes clear), but this almost tempts me to look him up.