“f you’re willing to toe a straight party line, on the other hand, let’s face it, you can be pretty damn mediocre and still carve out a nice little niche for yourself at any one of a welter of generously funded ideological publications and think tanks. Sure, it’s a smaller pond, but you get to be a relatively big fish. You’ll always have a book deal waiting at Regnery, a warm guest chair on Fox, editors at NR and the Weekly Standard eager to look at your pitches, handsome honoraria on your speaking tour of College Republican groups, and in your golden years, an undemanding sinecure as the Senior Olin Fellow at the Institute for Real ‘Murriken Studies.

Sound like you and CATO

Repeal the 11th amendment.

The 90% of Hiatt’s Washignton Post editorial page?

The magazine is center left. This is obvious beyond the point where I’m willing to expend effort persuading anyone who finds it controversial.

Can’t say I find your argument–which amounts to “Duh!”–particularly compelling.

Presumably when you’re not out debunking the pernicious myth of the liberal media, you know this perfectly well yourself.

The early eighties called, they want their right-wing talking point back.

I’ve subscribed to The Atlantic for 30 years, and it certainly *seems* to have drifted to the right, though it has always had it share of contrarian articles. As for their blogosphere, its composition seems thrown together at the last minute. Andrew and Fallow are solid, thoughtful journalists of long experience. McArdle is a dilettante. Ambinder and Goldberg merely idiosyncratic. It’s hardly Salon.

As a perfect example of The Atlantic’s pernicious slide to the Dark Side, they stopped including Henry and Emily’s wonderful Puzzler section recently.