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'This is William Kristol's Last Column'

kristol-190a.jpgAll good things must come to an end. Also Bill Kristol's (ambivalent) time at The New York Times — an appointment that has continued to puzzle and frustrate Times readers since it was announced over a year ago. In his last column Kristol declares that "Jan. 20, 2009, marked the end of a conservative era," a tacked on to the end of the column notes that "This is Bill Kristol's last column." Who the Times will pick to fill the conservative space at the paper remains to be seen (anyone have suggestions? Ross Douthat and Megan McArdle are two names being bandied around).

Over at The Daily Beast Scott Horton speculates that the reason for Kristol's departure has nothing to do with his neo-conservative views but with more "fundamental" problems.

Kristol's writing wasn't compelling or even very careful. He either lacked a talent for solid opinion journalism or wasn't putting his heart into it.
On his Twitter feed Jay Rosen remarks that "The New York Times will be poorer, not for having dumped Bill Kristol, but for not explaining — even to itself — what went wrong, why he failed. So maybe a job for Clark Hoyt this week! Meanwhile it seems Kristol has landed on his feet (sort of).


Michael Calderone reports that Kristol will "be an occasional contributor to the Washington Post's online feature,'Post Partisan.'"

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