I wrote National Review columnist Larry Kudlow this morning asking him for more details about his Enron involvement. He told me his upcoming piece would give details. It does. Good for Kudlow, although it seems to me that he should have disclosed this before now. The upshot is that he too got a total of $50,000 from Enron – for a year’s consulting fee, and two speaking gigs. (That means that he disclosed it later than Krugman but, unlike Krugman, volunteered the amount of money he received.) Kudlow told me that Irwin Stelzer of the Weekly Standard and the Sunday Times of London (the paper I write for) was responsible for organizing the board. I’ve emailed him to ask for more details, including the full list of pundits who were recompensed by Enron. I’ve also asked Bill Kristol to disclose how much money he actually got from Enron. None of the pundits so far involved has said he will return the money to charities for bankrupt Enron employees. I’ll let you know if that changes.
ANOTHER GOLDHAGEN SLAM: Sam Schulman takes on the Cornel West of the Jewish intelligentsia. Has anyone found the Goldhagen piece less than hysterical?
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