Diversity
Grrr…William Kristol is going to be a NY Times columnist. While I don’t mind there being conservative columnists, William Kristol isn’t just a conservative, he’s a total GOP hack(arguably this is OK to balance out Krugman, but I digress). And Andrew Sullivan is right, if you’re going to have two conservative columnists, having a pair of former Weekly Standard colleagues who are dyed-in-the-wool neoconservatives doesn’t really add much to the Op-Ed page. Couldn’t they get someone who isn’t so enthusiastic about invading Muslim countries and war-making in general?
While I know I don’t have a ton of readers, it would be cool if yall could give some suggestions in the comments.
My own are Ross Douthat and Ramesh Ponnuru.
Victor Davis Hanson? Thomas Sowell? Shelby Steele? Any of those would be my preference.
HispanicPundit
December 28, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Lovely. Him, Friedman, and Brooks.
A.E.
December 29, 2007 at 12:36 am
You think Krugman is comparable to Kristol? What intellectual and ethical parallels are there between the two? I wasn’t aware of any.
Joseph
December 29, 2007 at 10:41 am
OK, I should have been much more clear. I like Krugman a lot more than Kristol, Krugman is right about 90% of the time, while Kristol is right maybe…ok, well never.
My point was simply that Krugman sees his role as an columnist is to be a very partisan, liberal democrat, while Kristol’s raison d’etre is to be a partisan, conservative Republicans. They’re both very explicit about this, and I personally think that there isn’t anything wrong with having partisan columnists, but I just wanted to acknowledge that they both conceive of themselves as quite partisan
Matt Zeitlin
December 29, 2007 at 11:14 am