I love the idea of an ideological Turing Test:
Put me and five random liberal social science Ph.D.s in a chat room. Let liberal readers ask questions for an hour, then vote on who isn’t really a liberal. Then put Krugman and five random libertarian social science Ph.D.s in a chat room. Let libertarian readers ask questions for an hour, then vote on who isn’t really a libertarian. Simple as that.
What a delightful idea.
There are a lot of problems in the world that could be eradicated if people were more easily able to adopt others’ perspectives.