AS finds someone who's cooked up this:
But the circumstances are of course not the only thing to have changed since he [Paul Krugman] opined on this topic in the past. His modes of analysis and expression have changed too, and radically, in ways that often seem calculated ...
I say, if anyone comes along and offers you a bi-weekly column for the NYT, turn it down on those terms. It's almost impossible to do properly, on that kind of schedule, in my estimation (and it is no more just that and an estimation from afar, to boot). Invariably, people turn to "shorthand" to fill the column inches.
