Gen-u-ine libertarian John Tierney will be taking the spot on the New York Times op-ed page recently vacated by sporadically libertarian-ish conservative William Safire. Sweet.
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Gary Gunnels|3.1.05 @ 5:36PM|#
...then we take Berlin!!!
|3.1.05 @ 5:47PM|#
hey maybe i'll read a NYT again after all
|3.1.05 @ 5:49PM|#
It's a start, but I'd like to have more influence on the front page content. Even bringing back to 'neutral' would be a monumental achievement.
Franklin Harris|3.1.05 @ 5:50PM|#
Hell, it's been years since Safire was even "sporadically libertarian-ish."
|3.1.05 @ 5:55PM|#
He looks creepily familiar.
Did Kirk Douglas illicitly sow his seed somewhere around County Cork back in the day?
|3.1.05 @ 5:58PM|#
Tierney's a good choice -- not a conservative replacement, but an interesting writer from a relatively under-represented point of view. By all accounts Tierney was the front-runner for the job, so I'm not surprised, but I am glad to see that he intends to base his columns on some firsthand reporting -- both because his reporting work has been quite good and entertaining, and also because there's a sore lack of real reporter-editorialists these days.
Anon
Marie|3.1.05 @ 6:02PM|#
Ah yes, the position for which my father (unsuccessfully) recommended me via email to the Times. Not that he lacks objectivity or anything. Sorry, Dad! Better luck next time.
|3.1.05 @ 6:21PM|#
He looks creepily familiar.
I was thinking Patrick Macnee, who played John Steed on the old Avengers series.
fyodor|3.1.05 @ 6:42PM|#
I'm with you there Stevo, separated at birth for sure!!
|3.1.05 @ 11:53PM|#
Improvement for sure.
|3.2.05 @ 11:05AM|#
Nice Leonard Cohen reference....keep those song-lyrics-for-column-titles headers comin'.
|3.3.05 @ 1:12PM|#
At last, the Old Gray Lady is good for something besides its crossword puzzles.