The op-ed pages of the two most consequential newspapers, The Washington Post and The New York Times, have sustained losses, the Post by the death of David Broder and the Times by the resignation of Frank Rich.
Rich provided insightful, common-sense liberalism, of which there never is enough. I have criticized Broder in recent years, and at times his centrism seemed to me to be undeclared conservatism, but moderate conservatives are even more an endangered species than liberals so, by whatever label, he will be missed.
