Hard as it is to believe, "A Hole in the Center" is really the title of a column in the New York Times.
The Hole in question is Ross Douthat. (Although its not pronounced Douthat. However you would pronounce Douthat, you'd be wrong. Don't even try.) Chances are his term will be shorter than Kristol's. Factual errors? Slurs? Nah. He would never stoop to including a fact in his column.
Basically, he has only one column, that he writes every week. The main problem, is that he won't ever say what he actually means, and just tries to imply it.
So I'll simplify it:
"Pick me! Pick me! I'm pretty & I put out!"
Is that a fair statement of his position? Maybe. Maybe not. time for a quote:
But to succeed, such a faction will have to represent something legitimately new in right-of-center politics.
If you don't get what that could mean, lets go back to week one:
And when he went down to a landslide loss, the conservative movement might – might! – have been jolted into the kind of rethinking that’s necessary if it hopes to regain power.
I don't think he meant that as a joke, but after 2 columns, nobody is sure what he's really saying. It's the political equivalent of the horror they put on the last page of the Globe magazine every Sunday. 60% of the page is framing for one of their anomie drenched cartoon pictures that just dares you to be wimp enough to read the pointless personal maunderings in the bottom 40% of the page.
Today's was that Todays Republicans need better Centrists. Oddly enough, he never gets to the other side: Why would a good Centrist want anything to do with Todays Republicans?
I'm going to apply. The Times really needs a weekly column about fishing for snakehead catfish by somebody who's never seen one.