Every day, a new Battle of the Pandemic seems to break out. There’s the Spotify controversy over podcaster Joe Rogan, accused of promoting COVID misinformation; there’s the protest by truckers in Canada against vaccine mandates and COVID-related restrictions. Late last month, the often-controversial former…

The New York Times just came out with a big glowing writeup of MMT, entitled “Time for a Victory Lap*”. This article aroused the anger of just about every macroeconomist on Twitter, and with good reason — it demonstrates very little understanding of the issues at play or the state of the policy debate, and it rhetorically elevates a fringe ideology to a…