And yet the big split in the Democratic party is nowhere to be found on television or on the op-ed pages. Anyway, it should be said that Ramesh is no moderate conservative. It should also be said that the Post does run Charles Krauthammer and George Will. But they pretty much have no choice on that score because of their popularity. The point remains that when choosing guest op-eds from conservatives they are almost always attempts to start a fight or expose one.
Editors love reports from behind enemy lines that expose the deep fissures and feuds on the Right.
If memory serves, the last time the Post ran a boxed op-ed was when Bill Kristol, of The Weekly Standard , diagnosed the demise of the conservative movement and the probable triumph of John McCain. But another way to look at it is that they just think conservatives are weird. Conservatives question and second-guess all that is noble and good in the world. Liberal journalists work under the assumption that they are without bias or ideology and, therefore, people who disagree with them must suffer from both. In terms of my political views, I hold them in check.