BACK AND TO THE LEFT. BACK AND TO THE LEFT…

● Shot: Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

—Headline and subhead, Daniel Okrent, then public editor of the Times, July 25, 2004.

● Chaser: Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right!

—Headline atop column by Jason Barker, associate professor of philosophy, South Korea’s Kyung Hee University, in the Times, today.

To be fair though, Marx’s theories did lead to some pretty swinging sexytime, or so I am told by the Times.