David Brooks, Roger Cohen, Ross Douthat, Tom Friedman, Nicholas Kristof are just some of the op-ed columnists of the New York Times. And very good they are too, in my opinion. In America, the NYT is seen as a liberal (in the American sense) and “progressive” newspaper, leaning more to the Democrats than the Republicans. In European terms that translates as centre-right. Anyway, there is little that is tendentious in their columns, which strike me as being fair, balanced and above all intelligent.
On the economic front, David Leonhardt succeeds in making complex issues understandable without unduly simplifying or distorting them. And then there is the wonderful Garrison Keillor, the author of Lake Wobegon Days, whom I can never read without thinking of my very dear and much missed friend, Richard Haney.
