Do All Conservative Intellectuals Have Trouble With Arithmetic?

The NYT ran a promotion for Representative Paul Ryan as a news story. The piece did not include a single critical comment from any of the the people interviewed.

This is truly remarkable since many of Ryan proposals would add enormous costs to the economy and/or don't seem to add up. For example, according to the Congressional Budget Office's projections, his 2011 Medicare proposal would have increased the cost to the country of providing Medicare equivalent insurance policies by $34 trillio...