Media elites call Anna Wintour's Vogue editorship stale, but after 20 years some in the creative underclass have grown attached. Or maybe, like Wintour, they've learned celebrities sell clothing.

The Times is always willing to expand the breadth of its readership. We can only assume the troubling economy is the reason for Katherine Zoepf's piece in today's New York Times Magazine about militants who are rehabilitated by the friendly Saudi government and by Penn State's International Center for the Study of Terrorism. Her considered and sympathetic portrayal of those caught up in the jihad rat race might sell some newspaper subscriptions, assuming the rehabilitation plan includes a new car to go buy the paper in. Apparently, it usually does:In Zoepf's formulation, all Saudi militants need to see a nonviolent path is a little helpful instruction, and maybe a new wife: