In his column yesterday, David Brooks apparently confused Ward Churchill (the controversial leftist professor) and Ward Connerly (the African American critic of affirmative action) in his column yesterday. The mistake has been fixed in the online version, but oddly there’s no disclosure of the correction.

Brooks’s mistake comes only days after Bill Kristol led off his new NYT column by confusing Michael Medved and Michelle Malkin. Unlike the Brooks column, Kristol’s column includes a disclosure at the bottom of the correction. So what’s the difference?

PS Who knew it was so hard to differentiate people with same first and last initials?

Update 1/21 10:06 AM: A correction appears in Brooks’s latest and has been appended to the original column.