Far from engaging in Holmes’s free trade in ideas, Krugman has been the intellectual equivalent of a robber baron, exploiting his power to the point of driving decent people away from the public sphere – particularly younger scholars, who understandably dread a “takedown” by the “Invincible Krugtron.”
克鲁格曼的行为绝不是霍尔姆斯所谓的思想的自由交流，他堪为知识分子中的强盗贵族，用手中的权力将正派人士排挤出公共空间，特别是青年学者——不难理解，青年学者害怕来自“不可战胜的克鲁格曼大帝”的“突袭”。