Bari already flounced away from her gig at the times after trying and failing to get them to fire her so that she could claim she was cancelled, so she's (probably?) burned that bridge?
As a fomer subscriber for 30+ years I would frame the question differently: How should a right-leaning paper, seemingly desperate to appease Trump proceed? I would hire another a food writer and move on. That‘s all they’ve got left.
Krugman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics 8 years into his column, so we just have to figure out which economist will win the Nobel prize in 8 years.
paul krugman is a brilliant economist who has dedicated his life to understanding and explaining complex economic issues. replacing him would be a huge loss for the profession.
would strike Smith Yggy and Weiss off the list simply because they make too much money independent to return to any formal media institution full time tbh
If ~I~ was an insecure website owner worried about losing my place as the goto discussion channel for today's events yeah I'd have keyed in keywords like that for whatever today's topic was to gum up the system
it sounds like LLM slop, phrases like "I respectfully disagree," "there's no evidence," etc. the real tell is you go to their profile and it's nothing but that kind of crap to dozens of random posts
Barro tries to be funny and make fun of people while not realizing the Yglesias thing only works if you do the contempt and bigotry in subtext. Barro would maximize their annoying factor but he'd only last three or four columns before people try to show up at the office to January 6 him.
I was incapable of picking up on all the social interactions at the time (also now) but I'm pretty sure that of the guests present the lady WSJ journalist went home while the Media Matters head guy and the rest of the gang there went out to cool sexy clubs
My takeaway was that I was inspired to make many different kinds of spaetzle after that, which impressed many people, including my now wife, so it's a happy memory
A lot of people in the replies saying Matty is making too much money elsewhere, but it's not an either/or. I'm sure he'd get even more subscribers with a regular NYT op ed
i think it's a mistake to imply that any of these individuals would be a suitable replacement for krugman, who is a renowned economist and critic of neoliberalism.
Maybe Noah Smith, but there's a non-zero chance Smith never makes it to the NYT office and somehow ends up in a version of the Russian roulette gambling game for The Deer Hunter
Since they're not going to pick a liberal economist I'd lobby for Steven Landsburg, who hates Krugman, hates the NYTimes, hates Trump, thinks we're all idiots except that we're all consumers, and so, also prefectly rational. Also he's fun
While he doesn’t have their profile and standing among the Commentariat, Mark Thoma is an actual economist with an establish body of work writing for lay audiences through his Economist’s View blog.
In Krugman’s The Conscience of a Liberal, he talked about how the Guilded Age led to the Great Depression. How that wouldn’t happen again because of regulations put forward by the New Deal. No more did our government allow robber barons to dictate the affairs of the country. He was Wrong.
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I find him a little annoying but the fact that I tend to agree with him in spite of that just tells me his ideas are good!
betting on someone we've more or less never heard of and we won't luck into a top-notch lib like we did with Krugman
Five bland posts on their site, generic language that contributes nothing. Fuck 'em. Blocked.
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But it's probably Smith
While he doesn’t have their profile and standing among the Commentariat, Mark Thoma is an actual economist with an establish body of work writing for lay audiences through his Economist’s View blog.
He retired from Uni of Oregon a few years back.