Of Words and Women
Larry Summers has had one big advantage in the public relations battle over his NBER remarks: the paucity of women on newspaper editorial pages. (Quickâname 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.