Monday
Jan262009
Post-Inaugural Reasons to Be Cheerful: It's Kristol-Clear
Monday, January 26, 2009 at 15:26
At the end of a rambling New York Times essay by a neo-conservative advising Barack Obama and the rest of us on how to be good liberals --- "a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty" (translation: can you find someone somewhere to beat up without an aftermath like Iraq 2003?) --- this footnote:
Now there's something to be unapologetically patriotic about.
This is William Kristol’s last column.
Now there's something to be unapologetically patriotic about.
Reader Comments (2)
Yes, but is he gone because of cutbacks? I don't know if people realize this, but the NYT is in serious financial trouble. There was even talk of it going bankrupt in the next few months but now a Mexican billionaire has lent the paper $250 million
The Atlantic had a piece on the NYT going bust this month (written pre-Mexican billionaire):
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901/new-york-times