National Journal asked more than 200 Congressional and Political Insiders how political partisanship can affect the legislative process in Washington (and more on Us versus Them and More of the Same). Doomed to failure: David Gordon reviews Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right by Paul Edward Gottfried. More on Michael Gerson’s Heroic Conservatism. A review of Confronting the New Conservatism: The Rise of the Right in America. Joel Kotkin and Fred Siegel on the gentry liberals: They're more concerned with global warming and gay rights than with lunch-pail joes. Here's the postscript to the new edition of What’s Left? How The Left Lost Its Way by Nick Cohen. Scott McLemee reviews Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman by Cathy Wilkerson. How to really love your country: A Top 5 list of criteria for a better America. An interview with Noam Chomsky on the responsibility of the intellectual. All the News That's Fit to Depress: Staying informed has become a moral obligation that feels like hell.
