So now I get to be an editor. The Dallas

Morning News today announced that I’m going to be in charge of a new Sunday

opinion and commentary section called Points, which will be launched (we

hope) in June. I’ll be working with editors and writers here to create the

section from the ground up, and to make it one of the leading places in

American newspapers for cutting-edge thinkpieces, analysis, provocations and

the like. The idea is to create a forum for the most energetic and provocative ideas from the right, left

and center. For example, I will be as eager to publish Jonathan Rauch and

Andrew Sullivan on gay marriage as I will to publish Stanley Kurtz and

Maggie Gallagher — and all writers and thinkers who are asking the

difficult but necessary questions on the great controversies of the day.

We’ll have a lot of fun—I hope to bring a pop sensibility and a fresh,

irreverent attitude (familiar to Jonahphiles) to the section. In short, my goal is to make Points the

fairest, most balanced and altogether best section of its kind in the

country, a newspaper salon for the liveliest writers and the sharpest minds

in Texas and beyond to find a place to launch their ideas to the national

conversation.