I've said it before: People don't just like Paul Krugman or dislike him. They love the guy or hate him. His writing evokes strong responses, because his writing is so effective.
I try to write that well, of course.
Krugman offers a few thoughts on his writing style in yesterday's But, And, Why.
1. informality.
2. "One thing that helps, I’ve found, is to give the writing a bit of a forward rush, with a kind of sprung or syncopated rhythm, which often involves sentences that are deliberately off center." (I don't know what that means.)
3. "as conversational a tone as I can manage."
"My bible in all this," he writes, "is George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language."
Okay.
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