Paul Krugman:
It’s very important to me, given my sort of dual career, to be able to weigh in on ongoing discussions of economics in a way that you can’t do in an 800-word column written for a general audience. And so I had a newsletter at The Times, which was summarily canceled. They said I was writing too much.
That was when I decided I needed to leave, but also that I had always been very, very lightly edited at The Times, until the last year. And then the editing became extremely intrusive. And I felt that I was putting in an enormous amount of effort trying to undo the damage and that everything was coming out bland and colorless as a result of the fight over the editors trying to tone things down.
