If you’re a known free-marketeer (or a movement conservative), there are two proven ways to get yourself on the New York Times op-ed page. First, sell out. Find an issue where you think the market fails, and write about it. Nothing the NYT loves more than a right-wing Judas. The other method is to team up and write a piece with an unlikely bedfellow.

So this Paul Craig Roberts-Chuck Schumer piece on the perils of exporting tech jobs to India was pretty much a lead-pipe cinch. Roberts ditched the free-trade ship several months ago, but to hop in the sack with Schumer is pariticularly ugly.

Better yet? The harshest and most thorough criticism of the Schumer-Roberts piece comes in this Washington Post column, penned by none other than lifelong liberal Michael Kinsley. Kinsley’s piece doesn’t hold all the way through, but it’s a solid A-. And it puts him off to a great start in defending his 2003 “Most Sensible Lefty” Agity, not to mention his 2003 Unqualified Offerings Award for “Best Non-Libertarian in a Libertarian Role.”

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