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Is Noah Smith the wrongest pundit online?

His ode to Argentine capitalism just a few months ago is pretty embarrassing today!

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Carl Beijer
Oct 01, 2025
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There are a lot of wrong pundits in the mainstream and there are a lot of malevolent pundits as well, but few combine being wrong and being malevolvent quite like Noah Smith. On foreign affairs alone it doesn’t get much worse. He’s a belligerent Sinophobe who does things like cite sources on China’s failures that directly contradict him; on Palestine he…

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