You think that based on my view that the NYT Opinion section is a clown car, I therefore want to only read people who agree with me?

The NYT happens to staff people on the intellectual right, which is whatever. It's a core part of who they are. My issue is lack of intellectual rigor.

I can say personally I like David Brooks a lot more than I liked him 10 years ago but he left the Times to go work for The Atlantic.