Progressives ignore marriage at their peril

Following a weekend rant against the economic value of people, Paul Krugman followed up in his column today by hearkening back to 1992 when Vice President Dan Quayle attacked sitcom character Murphy Brown for choosing to have a child without a husband.

“The whole focus on ‘family values’ — as opposed to concrete policies that help families — turns out to have been an epic intellectual misfire,” Krugman concluded.