Five Minutes With: Paul Krugman

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Paul Krugman has been called “the most important political columnist in America” by The Washington Monthly. An economist who has taught at MIT, Princeton, Yale, and Stanford, Krugman became a columnist for the New York Times’ opinion section in 2000. Since then, he has been an outspoken critic of conservative policies and politics, especially the economic and social missteps of the Bush administration. His 2003 collection of columns, The Great Unraveling, was a New York Times bestseller.

Krugman talked to Campus Progress about illegal immigration, the deficit, blogs and why he’d pick a root canal over Bill O’Reilly.