Nixonland author Rick Perlstein: "There's been an absolute explosion of intellectual interest among liberals on the right. You might even say, not exaggerating too much, that making sense of the right-wing ascendency--its ideas, its tactics, the window it provides onto deeper themes in U.S. history, and, even more, the window it provides onto the successes and, more crucially, the failures of the American left in the period of its own post-Depression and post-World War II ascendency--has been the signal intellectual project on the left for at least a decade a more. It's fascinating, and telling, that a smart guy like Mark Hemmingway missed this."

Posted by Laura at May 27, 2008 11:35 AM