When a New York Times reporter called me earlier in the week to ask some follow-up questions about Scott Thomas Beauchamp, she started off by saying that “this is a story that just won’t die.” Indeed, it won’t, if only because the editors at TNR refuse to kill it, preferring instead to stonewall while even Beauchamp has decided to cut his losses. But the story has moved onto a new phase, as commentators ask, in the words of Charles Krauthammer, ‘Why did the New Republic run it?‘ Krauthammer’s theory: