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David Shipley: Calling Rick Hills to the NYT?

By Dan Markel, Ethan Leib, Rick Garnett, Matt Bodie, Paul Horwitz , Steve Vladeck, and Orly Lobel

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Not sure how I missed this earlier, but I've just seen that William Kristol is stepping down from his somewhat short-lived perch at the NYT op-ed page. Here's the news story. This makes sense. Kristol wasn't terrible on the NYT page, but he was rarely the source of both true and surprising views that Brooks and Safire often are/were for the rightish side of the aisle.

So, David Shipley, as you and Andrew Rosenthal determine who should fill that slot, and assuming you want someone to provide some intellectual and political diversity to the page, let me offer a half-hearted nomination: Rick Hills. I'm clearly less selfish than Jeffrey Goldberg is vis-a-vis Ross Douthat, but that''s probably explained only by the fact that Douthat works nearby Goldberg; Rick's a couple thousand miles from me. (And witness Goldberg's willingness to throw Seth Lipsky into the flames!).

Picking Hills to be the new NYT columnist will introduce to the nation a voice that sparkles with insight and good humor, erudition and purportedly some degree of self-proclaimed anti-intellectualism...perfect for a columnist!

Full post as published by Prawfs on January 27, 2009 (boomark / email).