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As someone who was against the Iraq war, it's hard to express how important Paul Krugman's columns were to me at the time. It felt like the world had gone mad, but he provided an island of sanity. And he was right about the war.

I also appreciate Krugman's rediscovery of current music as an older person. It encouraged me to keep exploring.

My favorite Krugman moment is him visiting the White House after he won the Nobel Prize. This photo of him with Bush (who he'd been railing on for 8 solid years) is priceless: https://freakonomics.com/2008/11/bush-congratulates-krugman/