Overshadowed by the financial crisis is the sad news the New York Sun is closing down, the last issue was published today. It never turned a profit in its six-and-a half years (in fact it lost a million bucks a month) and the publishers at last decided to pull the plug. I will miss it, having been a reader from the very first issue. It provided a welcome alternative to the New York Times (which, after reading most of my life, I finally gave up on in disgust in 2001) with an editorial policy I could embrace and an arts section that easily outclassed the one in the Times.
The Sun goes out in glory with its vehement opposition to the Wall Street bailout, arguing, as I do, it is far better to let the markets sort out this mess rather than capitulate to the Marxists by turning our banking system over to the government. The Sun's opinion on the bailout ran contrary to all other papers in town, the Times (naturally), the News, the Post, even the Wall Street Journal (the late Robert L. Bartley is surely spinning in his grave) all having endorsed it. Also praiseworthy, the Sun proved to be a major thorn in the side of the city's derelict and sclerotic education industry, provoking many entertainingly angry responses from Chief Educationist Weingartner of the Teachers Cartel.
Alas, whatever will I read now on the A Train?
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