As you know, I wasn’t a fan of his courtship of Dylan Farrow.

But I do like this column of his about the nauseating treatment of farm animals. It’s not just a matter of public health, but of human decency—or lack thereof—and how the way we treat other species reflects on our own.

If I could afford it, I would buy all my meat from here.

And, while I’m passing out compliments to columnists I don’t generally like, Ross Douthat, the Times’ reasonable young conservative, wrote a nice column about parenting yesterday. (It’s fascinating how you couldn’t care less about parenting columns, and then you become a parent and you soak up every word of them.)

Ross and I agree: Too many parents whine too much. And also, Jennifer Senior’s new book, All Joy and No Fun, is very smart and insightful. I’m not surprised: Jennifer wrote for us at George probably 15 years ago, and even then it was clear that she was very talented.