A Cure for the Common Op-Ed

Forget the Supreme Court, we need term limits for opinion columnists

I will admit up front that I don’t read standard newspaper op-eds regularly these days, and haven’t for years, because it isn’t my job to anymore. I generally scroll right past the Washington Post op-ed section, only occasionally giving in the primal urge to click and exceptionally baiting headline. But for the most part, I skip them because they are the most predictable and irrelevant parts of today’s newspapers.*

I mention this because during my morning scroll today, I saw this headline from an exemplar of the D.C. political class opinionator: “Two candidates, blithely campaigning on a treadmill to oblivion.”

Of course it’s George Will. Who else could cram so much pretension into a headline that he likely didn’t even write himself — he is so filled with predictable pretension that the copyeditor can mimic the style with no effort.

Ah, George Will, the man who’s been eruditing it up on the pages of the Washington Post since I was a wee lad in journalism school. Today he’s reducing the …