Thoreau gets to the crux of the matter

A man after my own heart.

I know nothing about Paul Krugman’s economic research.  I know that he’s a professor of economics at a good school, but there are many people like that and not all of them are Nobel candidates.  Because I know nothing about his economic scholarship, I shall do like everybody else on the internet and judge his worthiness for the prize based on whether or not he agrees with me on politics.

This is how we resolve all scholarly disputes, you know.