Now there's something Bill Keller might have done: asked Caldwell instead of Kristol. One gets the sense that the NYT simply doesn't know the range and vitality [did you mean lunacy?] of non-leftist opinion out there. -AS
Kristol was a poor choice, I think. Along with his discredited "neocon" ideology/ideologies, I find that I'm seldom challenged by what he has to say, are you?
They went with "safe", it would seem. A known name.
