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Means of Descent

The Nation's "New Politics"
Washington correspondent John Nichols cautions the Democrats to avoid a partisan response to recent intelligence revelations.

How Doris Kearns Goodwin Came To Resemble Lyndon Baines Johnson
Rick Perlstein on the "kind of arrogance where you don't even realize when you are using people." From the History News Network.

Alternate View
Eric Alterman, who said of Andrew Sullivan's weblog, "while his site arouses a certain gruesome car-wreck fascination, it serves primarily as a reminder to writers of why we need editors," starts his own at MSNBC.com. The American Prospect Online blog, "Tapped," hails Alterman's decision as the start of "a new wave of liberal, edited blogging."

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