I think Ross Douthat is probably one of the best young conservative thinkers out there and I loved his old blog at the Atlantic.

And now that he writes for the New York Times, I miss that he no longer blogs.

But I don’t get the whole campaign by Freddie over at the League:

The point is this: give Douthat a goddamn blog, New York Times. He can keep writing his column. You can ask that he talk about stuff in his column that doesn’t appear in the blog. You can insist that he operate in a different voice in the column than he does on the blog. You could even have the proviso that it be a blog about policy, or culture, or whatever. But give the man a blog on your website. Let him post about things that are a little less consequential. Let him stretch his feet out a bit. You hired this guy because you think he’s talented. Why not given him broader ranger to show it?

I know that I’m not the smartest tool in the shed, but couldn’t Douthat just start a blog on his own? I mean, could he just go to Wordpress or Blogger and just start up a blog? Why does he have to wait for the New York Times to give him a blog?

Don’t get me wrong: I’d love to see Douthat blog again. But unless there is some clause in a contract forbidding him to create a blog, if he really wanted to blog he could have done so by now quite easily.

I’m just saying…