Originally Posted by Bostonian
Friedman has a follow-up column that makes sense to me. People are irritated by Friedman for good reasons (he is a pompous name-dropper) but also for bad ones (he accepts that we live in a market economy).

People become irritated with Friedman because whatever it is that he's writing will generally make you less able to deal with reality.

If his writing was helpful, he could do all the pompous name-dropping he wanted to do.

That's not his problem.

His problem is that he can't actually think.