Listening to Mahathir

Tom reacted on my post on the speech of Mahathir a while ago and pointed to this interesting article by Paul Krugman of the New York Times. Krugman makes a couple of valid points but of course I don't agree with him ;). Because, as much as I loathe the Dubya administration, I'm evenly allergic to the cultural relativism of some progressive voices - and I think Krugman's reasoning is to some extent affected by this relativism. Read more...