Liked the intro, but Paul Krugman isn't a serious thinker and shouldn't be taken seriously.  The worst part was when he went on contemptuously about how listening to both sides is wrong, talked about certain questions (e.g. in economics) being settled, and then went on to mischaracterize the results of the financial crisis.  It's nice that there are a few points on which he is agreeable, but generally speaking Krugman isn't even a good source for "viewpoints I disagree with" simply because (and I can't overstate this) he's no longer a serious thinker -- he's a pundit.  The bottom line is that there are fair points of view that he disagrees with (e.g. free-er markets in healthcare can be effective) and instead of engaging with those ideas Krugman relies on his credentials to lazily bat them away in a halfhearted attempt to straw man them.<br><br>Anyways still a good show, and the intro was good because I almost skipped it, but Krugman's shallow thinking and laziness don't add much to the conversation.