I don’t usually disagree with Foster but McArdle’s alleged selling points do not compute: “McArdle doesn’t play nice” — yeah, with teachers, but with bankers she’s always very gentle. “Doesn’t fit the mold of a typical feminist” — who does anymore? “And her political profile is still ambiguous enough to register shock when she takes a hard line.” Really? What are her unexpected positions? She gives the impression of ambiguity by saying stuff like, “I myself like rail, and think that the culture-war rhetoric with which conservatives frequently reject it is out-of-proportion to its importance in the grand political scheme of things. At the same time…” and then comes the AEI boilerplate. (Later: “I often find it hard to convince environmentalists that I really am a rail buff…”)
If we’re going to push the Times over the cliff, let’s just put Ann Althouse in there and go for broke.
