FIGHTING WORDS

Ezra Klein: "Siegel did not commit an act of pedophilia (or, for that matter, statutory rape), and he spent a decade plus feeling ashamed of it. And now, he has the gall to accuse Kincaid of pedophilia for believing that our culture sexualizes children." Greg Sargent: "When will Wolf Blitzer, Tim Russert and other bigfoot national pundits bemoan the fact that "sensible" and "courageous" moderate Chafee may have no place in his party?" Thomas Frank: "What our modernized liberal leaders offer — that is, when they’re not gushing about the glory of it all at Davos — is not confrontation but a kind of therapy for those flattened by the free-market hurricane: they counsel us to accept the inevitability of the situation and to try to understand how we might retrain or re-educate ourselves so we will fit in better next time."