I Wonder Who Wrote It

A pretty decent piece appeared under Bill Bennett's name in the Washington Post today. The author critiques Bush's apparent change of direction on Middle East policy.

I would post the thing to Reductio, but ever since it came out that Bill Bennett is a very busy man who uses ghostwriters, it's really hard for me to cite anything "he" writes, however compelling the argument somebody else has made for him.

I wonder just how much of that goes on with "important" intellectuals. Am I just naive in thinking, for example, that his Empower America colleague Jack Kemp probably writes his own op-eds? Maybe. Hell, we have some idea that "important" book writers like Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose can't be bothered to turn out their own prose, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Anyway, we're equal opportunity here -- I don't much like it whether it's done by liberals or conservatives.

[Posted at 22:47 CST on 03/20/02] [Link]