Alex Massie asks regarding Maureen Dowd, “Is it unkind to suggest that were she to hand her columns, unsigned, to the editor of a minor magazine at any of the nation’s lesser provincial universities they would be deemed unpublishable?” He then goes on to dissect Exhibits A and B.
Putting Dowd behind a subscription wall remains both a demonstration of a demonstration of a complete lack of business acumen and an extraordinary act of charity.








