One thing I&#x27;ve been wondering recently in regards to the NYT Online is why some articles allow for comments and some don&#x27;t (as generally the debate is reasonably well balanced).<p>This article is obviously more of a magazine-style, so perhaps from an aesthetic perspective it doesn&#x27;t fit. However, even in more &quot;standard&quot; articles they are sometimes available and sometimes not. I appreciate that some articles &#x2F; topics are more sensitive, but surely they are the ones that need debate more than ever. Also if it&#x27;s appropriately moderated anything deemed inappropriate can of course be removed.