conor friedersdorf

Higher education should undermine religious belief.

Conor Friedersdorf laments for television news.

Conor Friedersdorf, writing about the rhetoric of Palin & Co., gets at what I think I was trying to get at the other day.

Fraction of material on Andrew Sullivan’s “one-man blog” actually generated by the person named Andrew Sullivan: maybe about half, when he’s not on vacation. Reasons presented by one of Andrew Sullivan’s stand-ins for concealing this fact: 1) don’t worry, we’re “marinated in Sullivan’s cerebral juices” (ew); 2) “Bylines would fracture the solitary voice of the blog,” i.e., give readers the wholly correct impression that the editorial enterprise known as “Andrew Sullivan” actually has many employees.