THEN VIRGINIA GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE Bob McDonnell got blasted by the Left as a radical anti-women, anti-gay, anti-welfare-state bigot, for his 20-year old Master’s thesis. The Washington Post broke the story.

Now we have Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s undergraduate thesis at Princeton University: “Socialism in New York City.”

The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism's decline, still wish to change America. Radicals have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one's fellows than it is'to battle an entrenched and powerful' foe. Yet if 'the history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.

Question: Why didn’t the Washington Post break this story?