Editorial pages in need of more balance

I write to take exception to your Letter from the Editors titled “Balancing act” (published July 18). The editors state they have a good mix of liberal and conservative columnists writing articles. I contend that it may have been true at one time but not any more. When I started taking this paper you regularly had articles from writers like Thomas Sowell, Charles Krauthammer and Bill O’Reilly. I realize that Sowell and Krauthammer are no longer with us, but surely there are columnists that can live up to their standard. You have liberal writers such as John Brummett. How can you really take a person seriously who doesn’t understand the electoral college and why it is important to the middle of the country? Paul Krugman is another regular writer who is way on the left side, but he really has no choice. He does write for the New York Times. Many more local columnists who represent the left. You offer no conservative writers. The editors describe them as not left. I agree they are not conservative. I enjoy Mike Masterson’s column but he is not a conservative writer. Bradley Gitz is probably the closest to a conservative writer that you offer. I can’t really tell where he is coming from. Perhaps he is a real conservative who is subservient to the liberal academic pressure one has when one is a professor. As for the rest of the named writers I can only remember reading Bret Stephens regularly and he is anything but a conservative.

I do get the Fayetteville version of the paper and I realize that it is extremely liberal but surely there are enough people reading this version of the paper who would actually enjoy a little better “balancing act.” RON DETRING Springdale