Good show all around here—to Mr. Shipley [previous top dude] for resigning when he couldn’t in good conscience follow the owner’s direction. And to Mr. Bezos for being forthright in announcing the direction he wants his publication to take.

"To wit, Post owner Jeff Bezos announced that the paper’s opinion section is making a turn to stand for, well, what we do.... it will be good to have a wingman in the fight."

We welcome the intellectual company. These days it can be lonely as a rare voice for free speech and economic liberty. Political and media fashion has shifted toward industrial policy and income redistribution, and even the Republican Party has too often come to favor government intervention in economic decisions between consenting adults.