STARR ON OBAMA, D'SOUZA ON STARR. Riffing on this New York Times Week in Review piece, our own Paul Starr offers some thoughts on Barack Obama, generation-baiting, and polarization over at his Freedom's Power blog.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Sunday Times, Alan Wolfe wrote a very very shrill review of Dinesh D'Souza's new tome The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, and mentions that Paul is included on D'Souza's hundred-strong enemies list. (In D'Souza's description, it's a "roster of people and groups that deserve the label of domestic insurgents. Here is the litmus test that confirms their eligibility. If you presume that these individuals want Bush to win and bin Laden to lose the war on terror, their rhetoric and actions are utterly baffling. By contrast, if you presume that they want bin Laden to win and Bush to lose the war, then their statements and actions make perfect sense.") Looking at the book's list right now, I see that fellow Prospect co-founder Robert Reich also made the cut, but that Bob Kuttner, Mike Tomasky, and Harold Meyerson got snubbed. Others who made the list include Paul Begala, Senator Jack Reed, and Mumia Abu-Jamal.
As Wolfe mentions, Thomas Frank is indeed, for some reason, listed twice.
--Sam Rosenfeld
