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Islamist Violence and Immigration Policy - The Becker-Posner Blog

NYT's columnist Paul Krugman can interpret just about anything as proving conservative beliefs to be wrong. But his July 29th NYT's article "French Family Values" was a little over the top even by his standards.

Becker and Posner did a thoughtful rebuttal.

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