This site is usually devoted to criticizing the New York Times, not praising it. But this weekend the newspaper has published two pieces that deserve praise, not criticism. One is an astonishing column by Christina Romer, the economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who was chairwoman of President Obama's council of economic advisers. She comes out publicly against Mr. Obama's State of the Union proposal to increase the minimum wage. The second is what seems like a deservedly scathing book review by Laura Secor of a book by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett that sides with the government of Iran.
If you are a conservative who has stopped reading the Times out of disgust for the left wing bias, click through the links above to those two articles. One can make disparaging comments — "even a stopped clock is right twice a day," "the regular editors must have been on vacation," "how did that get through" — but that would be ungenerous. Rather, just savor these gems.