Journalism Has A Special, Hallowed

Back In The Days When The Market Was A Kind Of Secular God And All The World Thrilled To Behold The Amazing Powers Of Private Capital, The Idea Of Privatizing Highways And Airports And Other Bits Of Our Transportation Infrastructure Made A Certain Kind Of Sense.

Acknowledging Class Was Always Difficult For 'new Democrats' - It Was Second-wave, It Was Divisive - But 2008 Made Retro Politics Cool Again.

What Is At Stake In The Debate Over Health Care Is More Than The Mere Crafting Of Policy. The Issue Is Now The Identity Of The Democratic Party.

Presidential Legacies Are Valuable Things, Too Valuable To Be Left Up To Historians.

They, The Conservatives, Are The Real Outsides, They Tell Us, Gazing With Disgust Upon The Ludicrous Manners Of The High And Mighty. Or, They Tell Us, They Are Rough-and-ready Proles, Laughing Along With Us At The Efforts Of Our Social "betters" To Reform And Improve Us. That They Are Often, In Fact, People Of Privilege Doing Their Utmost To Boost The Fortunes Of A Political Party That Is The Traditional Tool Of The Privileged Is A Contradiction That Does Not Trouble Them.