More Megan McArdle towering over Paul Krugman

In this episode, she finds the $400 million in costs he tried to hide in describing the Massachusetts health care program.

UPDATE: Bryan Caplan points out this detailed Krugman analysis by Dan Klein and Harika Bartlett:

Klein and Barlett inventory all of Krugman's NYT columns, and find a curious pattern of omissions and deviations that are hard to reconcile with Krugman's self-image as a "champion of the poor."

First, the omissions. After reviewing all of Krugman's columns in the sample, the paper finds that he virtually never advocates helping the poor by getting rid of bad government programs (even though there are plenty to choose from).

Second, the deviations: Klein and Barlett trace Krugman's gradual turn against low-skilled immigration. It's pretty ugly, especially for someone who claims to worry so much about "the poor".

Dan Klein tells me that, so far, his critique of Krugman hasn't gotten the attention he was hoping for. The reason, I suspect, is that attitudes toward Krugman have grown so bimodal. Am I the only economist who read this piece who genuinely felt disappointed that Krugman's creative mind and intellectual courage could give way to so much conventional demagoguery?