A BLIGHT OF SMART READERS :

Earlier in the week we posted a blurb from a Nicholas Kristof op-ed in the NY Times and our (my) reaction. As is not uncommon here, the comments about what I'd written were significantly better than the original and were uniformly thoughtful and interesting. So if you feel a sense of deja vu, don't worry; the following is a repeat of the original post and then the text of the comments it provoked. [Editor's Note : some of the comments were rearranged or deleted but none were altered, neither genetically nor phonetically.]
Posted by Orrin Judd at July 25, 2002 4:58 PM