The New York Times is adding William Kristol as an op-ed columnist. Good choice, I think.They need a successor to William Safire.David Brooks has often been calledthe conservative that liberals like, and I don't think that's necessarily a compliment.

David Gibson is the director of Fordham’s Center on Religion & Culture.

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