In previous years I would have given you five stars. However, in the last few years it appears that the rigour with which the newspaper questions publicly popular opinions has waned. I see many more articles that take assertions/positions/ideologies at face value and then reason from there rather than insisting upon analytical cogency from the ground up. It may, of course, simply have been a bad couple of years, an editor with persistent indigestion or something else that will pass. I hope so because the newspaper's insistence upon intellectual rigour and upon asking difficult questions is a primary source of the immense value I've derived from reading it weekly these last 30 years.
