Alan Dershowitz, writing in The Wall Street Journal, declares, “The [Democratic] party will lose the presidential race if it defines itself as soft on terror.”

Yes. Yes it will.

Better public intellectuals, please.

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.