MORE ON NANCY MACLEAN’S DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS — SHE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT ECONOMICS. “MacLean’s suggestion that an economist’s use of the term ‘marginal revolution’ refers to a nefarious modern American political plot is no less ridiculous than had she suggested that a physicist’s use of the term ‘Newtonian revolution’ refers to a plot to stuff all cookies with filling made of figs.”

Scholarship based on paranoia and ignorance isn’t really scholarship at all. But what it is, unfortunately, is pretty common.