Columnist Anna Quindlen is quitting her back-page column in Newsweek to make way for younger, browner talent, but she’s going out scolding:

It’s undeniable: America’s opinionators are too white and too gray. They do not reflect our diversity of ethnicity and race, gender and generation. They do not reflect the diversity of opinion, either, mainly because most are part of an echo chamber of received wisdom that takes place at restaurant tables in New York and Washington. Conservative pundits are making themselves foolish, flailing wildly because their movement itself is aging, confounded by the popularity of a president who stands for much of what they revile. But liberals are little better, fighting the same old battles in the same old ways, as though the world during their tenure had not changed radically.

Aging liberals aren’t outdated in their belief system, just their grip on tactics and technology. Quindlen apparently sees herself as the media’s outmoded Hillary to her undesignated successor’s Obama:

Barack Obama hopscotched over an entire generation of politicians to reach the White House; he had not waited his turn because a majority of the American people decided that he ought not to do so. They agreed that the country needed change.

Readers shouldn’t miss a liberal writer who roots for school shootings to teach America a lesson, as Quindlen did in 1999: “Perhaps it will take one more school shooting to move the majority of Americans into a position more powerful than that of the NRA. Perhaps it will take one more school shooting to move us from people who support gun control to people who vote it.”