Reasoning With John Tierney

Days before his column goes behind the $$$$ wall, the NYT’s John Tierney sat down with the fun gang over at Reason Magazine for a dicussion of libertarian values and his vision as one of the designated liberal-haters on the op-ed page.

It begins with a classic question thought by many an interviewer: “I see you’ve got Reason lying on your side table there; is that like the awful wedding present put out on the mantle when Aunt Millie comes to visit, or are you a reader?”

Then eventually they get around to the good stuff: “One could probably sum up in a sentence or two what, generally, Maureen Dowd or Tom Friedman or Paul Krugman do, but you don’t seem to have an obvious schtick or beat.”

Tierney: “I don’t really have a beat the way some columnists do.

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