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Back in June 2010, I published a Wall Street Journal op-ed arguing that the American Left was unenlightened, by and large, as to economic matters. Responding to a set of survey questions that tested people's real-world understanding of basic economic principles, self-identified progressives and liberals did much worse than conservatives and libertarians, I reported. To ________, the journal titled the piece Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader? - the implication being that people on the Left were not.

goad the curiosity
suggest a non-partisan stand
sharpen the axe
please the fifth graders
my consternation