Some say the editorial page is a newspaper's Department of Futile Gestures, as the opinions expressed therein turn a nifty phrase or two a lot more often than they turn public opinion. There's even a word by which journalists celebrate this futility, Afghanistanism—which is two-fisted advocacy in the service of remote corners of the earth that readers haven't the slightest interest in and the paper hasn't the slightest influence over.…
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