Among the many reasons adduced for the awfulness of The New York Times—its arrogance, its sloppiness, its almost risible political correctness—is the paper’s lack of competition. With the demise of The New York Tribune in 1966, the last serious competitor to the Times vanished. That unfortunate situation may be about to be corrected. As of April 16, New York has a new broadsheet. Called The New York Sun, it revives a defunct paper that, like the Tribune, went out of business years ago. For the moment, the Sun is a modest one-section paper and is published only five days a week. But if its first issues are anything to go by, the Times will finally have some real competition in its local reporting and in its coverage of culture. Readers may subscribe to the Sun by telephone at 866.692.7861 (toll free) or on-line at www.nysun.com.