The New York Times's decision to make Bill Kristol a regular columnist on its op-ed page was met with the predictable chorus of left-wing boos and catcalls

National Review, Jan 28, 2008

The New York Times's decision to make Bill Kristol a regular columnist on its op-ed page was met with the predictable chorus of left-wing boos and catcalls. To the typical New York Times reader, inviting the editor of The Weekly Standard and a leading advocate of the troop surge in Iraq to opine on the same page as Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, and Maureen Dowd is an affront. They are reacting as though the Times had just made Larry the Cable Guy editor of the Style section. Times editorial-page editor Andy Rosenthal defended his decision by saying, "The idea that the New York Times is giving voice to a guy who is a serious, respected conservative intellectual--and somehow that's a bad thing.... How intolerant is that?" We are surprised that he is surprised. Left-wing talk about "diversity" has long applied only to race, gender, etc. For campuses, bureaucracies, and newspapers, ideological homogeneity is preferred.

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