Shots In The Dark

Larry Summers has had one big advantage in the public relations battle over his NBER remarks: the paucity of women on newspaper editorial pages. (Quick—name one female columnist who writes for the Times and isn't Maureen Dowd?)

Now a debate over this issue has spilled into the press. Former Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich is attacking Los Angeles Times op-ed editor Michael Kinsley for not doing enough to get women onto the op-ed page of the LAT. Kinsley, Estrich argues, has a "Larry Summers problem." She also says some other stuff that sounds way over the line of common decency.