Why Andrew Sullivan matters

The proprietor of The Dish represented the intellectual unbound

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It’s telling, I think, that Andrew Sullivan’s announcement on Wednesday that he’s retiring his enormously popular blog — The Dish — has inspired tweets, Facebook posts, and longer tributes (and denunciations) that read an awful lot like obituaries.

Even though Sullivan is still very much alive.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.