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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Paul Ryan: A Reading List

By DAVID LEONHARDT

With the news Saturday, there will be tons of coverage of Representative Paul D. Ryan, but I thought it was also worth collecting some of the detailed articles that have been written about Mr. Ryan over the past few years. We welcome other suggestions in the comments section.

Jackie Calmes's article in February about the Bowles-Simpson budget in The Times contained details about Mr. Ryan's continuing debate with President Obama.

Mark Landler and Jonathan Weisman have both profiled Mr. Ryan in The Times this year.

In a July article in The Weekly Standard praising Mr. Ryan, Stephen Hayes called him “the intellectual leader of the Republican Party.”

In an April article in New York magazine critical of Mr. Ryan, Jonathan Chait said he had “thoroughly seized control of the Republican agenda.” Mr. Chait also wrote in detail about Mr. Ryan for The New Republic.

Ryan Lizza's recently profiled Mr. Ry an in The New Yorker.

Ross Douthat and David Brooks, of The Times's Op-Ed page, have both written about Mr. Ryan, as has - from a different perspective - Paul Krugman.

Ezra Klein of The Washington Post conducted two Q&A's with Mr. Ryan in 2010, on economic policy and health policy.

In National Review in 2011, Jonah Goldberg urged Mr. Ryan to run for president.

In a 2011 column, I noted that Mr. Ryan's budget was daring in its specificity and timid in its exempting older Americans from sacrifice. In 2010, I looked at Mr. Ryan's vision of government.