Why are you here? 

This afternoon, New Republic senior editor Jonathan Chait dissected yet another dishonest column by the habitually dishonest Charles Krauthammer. Chait scores some good points, etc, but his post also raises an oft-repeated question. What the hell is Krauthammer’s name still doing on TNR’s masthead?

This point has been made before by more proficient bloggers than I, but it bears repeating. Krauthammer is only listed as a contributing editor, a purely honorary title. In fact, I can’t even remember when he last wrote for TNR. Presumably it was during the Micheal Kinsley/Hendrik Hertzberg reign, a time when praise was heaped upon the magazine by such lefty stalwarts as George Will, Norman Podhoretz and the National Review.

But today, TNR is a different, and much more consistently liberal, magazine—so they should take Krauthammer’s name off the masthead already.