ONE OF THE MANY FRONTS of the war on the Bush administration is the war on John Bolton. The New York Times‘s latest contribution to this assault is Warren Hoge’s July 23 page-one story “Praise at home for envoy, but scorn at UN.”

Hoge is the Times‘s U.N. bureau chief and a voice of the foreign policy establishment. No less an authority than Sen. John Kerry has testified to the Hogean Weltanschauung when he confided in an interview with the Times in the course of the 2004 campaign that: