This isn't a column, it's a blog post. Nobody other than Paul Krugman is involved in what goes on Paul Krugman's personal blog. This is one of two or three pos

This isn't a column, it's a blog post. Nobody other than Paul Krugman is involved in what goes on Paul Krugman's personal blog. This is one of two or three posts Krugman has made about 538: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/further-thoughts-on-hedgehogs-and-foxes/ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/further-thoughts... http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/sergeant-friday-was-not-a-fox/ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/sergeant-friday-... Krugman links to Tyler Cowen saying the same thing: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/03/nate-silvers-538-is-up-and-running.html http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/03/nat... And I don't think anyone could make the argument that Cowen and Krugman are backroom buddies. Krugman has made many, many posts on his blog in full-throated support of Silver and his methods: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/the-war-on-objectivity/ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/the-war-on-objec... http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/triumph-of-the-electoral-nerds/ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/triumph-of-the-e... http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/scoop-dupes/ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/scoop-dupes/ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/the-medical-industrial-complex-and-the-public-option/ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/the-medical-indu... http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/reporting-that-makes-you-stupid/ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/reporting-that-m... It's ironic that you're criticizing Krugman on this without looking at the data, which speaks to Krugman very much supporting Silver, and only now expressing distress over the future of Silver's site and his hires (he points out a particularly bad economics analysis by one of the staff and explains his issues with it), not Silver's analysis.