I went on record in The Corner when David Shipley became editor of the

New York Times op ed page that under his supervision it would be

fair-minded and open to all points of view. Take a look at today’s op ed on Armand Leroi as an example.

Anyone care to nominate any other major op ed page in the country that

would have printed this piece? Maybe the WSJ, but that’s about it. And

this comes about six weeks after the Sunday page had two op eds on the

same day about the Summers flap at Harvard–both coming down on

Summers’ side. Granted, you have to ignore the in-house people (Brooks

excepted) who take up a lot of room. But otherwise it has become most

intellectually diverse op ed page in the country.