“A Letter from the Editor”

The following was submitted to the New York Sun on September 3rd:

“As if I didn’t have enough to distract and depress me. A newly energized and enabled Russia, back to its murderously mischievous ways. A faith based fascism that slaughters with divine sanction. Global warming and pendemic obesity (which may be the cause of global warming). And a swarming lot of miscreants, malefactors and mediocrities otherwise known as Congress. I won’t start sitting shiva yet but the loss of the New York Sun would be a loss to those who still value ideas and ideals. The Bolsheviks and bedwetters at the Times can hardly be expected to fill the void, they are the void.”

That a newspaper many (though not enough) of us have come to regard as essential can’t survive suggests a culture and intellectual climate in decline.