Identity politics

[Brad De Long]

>Les Schaffer wrote:
>
>>okay. okay. i can't stand the suspense anymore.
>>
>>Will __someone__ please tell the rest of us what this alterman guy
>>said, so we can judge it for ourselves on its (de)merits.
>
>Unfortunately, The Nation didn't put Alterman's column up on their website,
>nor did they post Katha Pollitt's excellent column in the new issue that
>responds to it. Since most Nation subscribers won't get their issues for a
>few more days, a couple of typed excerpts from Pollitt's column (I'm not
>enough of a masochist to type in Alterman's prose)...

Very nicely done...

Am I the only one who thinks that the quality of _The Nation_ would
quadruple if only they would go all-Katha Pollitt all the time?

Brad DeLong