Ex-'WSJ' Murdoch Critic Lands at Forbes.com

Tunku Varadarajan, the former Wall Street Journal opinion czar who ditched the paper shortly after Rupert Murdoch clinched a deal to buy it, has a new home. Varadarajan has signed up with Forbes.com, where he's editing the site's freshly-relaunched opinion channel.

A staunch right-winger, Varadarajan has brought with him a full roster of conservative and libertarian columnists, including law professor Richard Epstein, Grand New Party co-author Reihan Salam, and former Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson. Analyzing politics "from a Democratic perspective" will be strategist Dan Gerstein, though just how Democratic that perspective is could be debated: Gerstein was in charge of Joe Lieberman's 2006 re-election campaign, when he ran against his own party as an independent.

Varadarajan hasn't said publicly why he left the Journal, where he was an assistant managing editor, but Media Mob noted upon his leaving that he had been a fierce critic of Murdoch, whom he called "a master practitioner of the corporate kowtow." Since he left, he's been a contributing editor at the Financial Times.