The front page of WSJ.com carries an announcement from the editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal announcing the launch of "Risk & Compliance Journal" whose content "spans the latest laws and regulations."
There's something Orwellian about the very term "compliance," which makes going along with what the government tells you to do into a kind of virtue. That's not to fault the Journal — it's clear that this is a growth area.
But it will be a sign of health in both the economy and the body politic when our leading newspapers start launching new sections devoted to "contrarianism" or "skepticism" or "troublemaking" rather than "compliance."
