Victor Davis Hanson. Raisin Farmer/Classics Professor/Writer/Pundit/Military Historian.
I’m also a fan of Steyn, Lileks and Krauthammer. Den Beste is probably the best writer among the Blogosphere Pundits.
Yes, I’ve been leaning to the right since, oh say, mid-September of last year.
I’m a bit surprised that Anna Quindlen hasn’t yet been mentioned. I think she is often able to cut through the rhetoric and get at the core of an issue. Her column in the latest Newsweek about saying the pledge was excellent.
Mark Steyn is terrific. Leonard Pitts is excellent. Andrew Coyne is fabulous. Dave Barry, magnificent. Molly Ivins is first-rate. Haroon Siddiqui of the Toronto Star is excellent.
The worst professional columnist I’ve ever read was Dalton Camp, but he’s dead now so I can’t pick on him anymore.
Finally! The Dopers had me worried there for a minute.