William Marvel: Priorities

In light of my limited education and expertise, I feel especially favored to be allowed a weekly column in a newspaper. It’s been hinted that I remain on this page to sustain an appearance of diversified opinion, as an example of conservative thought. If an old nuclear protester, Bush-basher and Iraq War opponent is the closest a media outlet can come to conservative thinking, that alone suggests its ideological breadth, but here I am.

As a more frequent contributor, at least in recent weeks, Jerry Knirk must feel still greater privilege. Notwithstanding the impossible virtue of objectivity so widely feigned in journalism, editorial sympathy can usually be gauged by the frequency, speed and prominence with which different points of view are published. Jerry is apparently doing something right — or at least something popular.