In my present circumstances, I can’t give Abby Thernstrom’s post the response it deserves. (Those circumstances, if you must know, involve a seesaw and an impatient little girl.) I do want to comment on one theme of my inbox: that the New York Times publishes conservatives only when they trash each other, and that conservatives should not volunteer for the assignment. My last op-ed for the Times made the case for free-market health-care reform and against universal coverage. The one before that urged Obama to reduce Social Security spending. So I don’t think the Times is using me.