FIGHTING WORDS

Thomas Frank: "History will record that in the week our laissez-faire government fiddled while a major city burned, the fourth most popular non-fiction book in the land, according to the New York Times, was an itemized account of the ways in which liberals are ruining the country." Deborah Pearlstein: "We are not doing well. And the unlimited-power executive holds a lion’s share of the blame." Eric Alterman: "When you think about it, it is a tribute to the American people that they remain as receptive to liberal arguments as they do, given how infrequently they hear them." Alek Felstiner: "And the political contributions, which are supposed to enrage the common man, are comically small compared with industry counterparts. In fact, they're small compared with the $5 million/year Berman plans to spend on this campaign." E.J. Graff: "For nearly twenty years, across the country, lesbians and gay men have been doing what Laurel Hester did: letting others see the injustice within their personal tragedies." Zach Schwartz-Weinstein: "But it isn't just about refusal. It's about "A Better Way," about a democratic, constituent, immanent (sorry) vision for how universities can be reorganized and what kind of work they/we can do." John Nichols: "The problem with the Bush administration's support for a move by a United Arab Emirates-based firm to take over operation of six major American ports -- as well as the shipment of military equipment through two additional ports -- is not that the corporation in question is Arab owned. The problem is that Dubai Ports World is a corporation."