Shrillblog

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Shrillblog is a weblog maintained primarily by J. Bradford DeLong, with input from Tyler Cowen, Andrew Northrup of The Poor Man, and others. It collects stories and articles about critics of what the authors perceive as fundamental dishonesty on the part of advocates of "conservative" policies in the Republican Party and the Bush administration. Many of the critics regard themselves as conservative, and disagree with characterization of the policies they assail as conservative.

According to DeLong's personal report, the blog originated in a conversation among DeLong, Cowen, and Northrup regarding the use of the term "shrill" as a criticism of New York Times columnist and fellow academic economist Paul Krugman. The three believed at the time that the criticism originated in a National Review guest column by Peter Ferrara. It subsequently spread in the work of prominent bloggers such as Andrew Sullivan, to the point that it was mentioned in Nicholas Confessore's extensive Washington Monthly profile.