I appreciate people's wish to keep the list open and not insular and I agree, but my one pet peeve is the New Republic. What they have published about the Palestinians, Nader, Said, and the anti-corporate globalization movement, to name a few, is inexcusable.
I'm mean they're for privatizing social security, no? What are the New Republic's redeeming features? Some of their writers, like John Judis?
I bet Aaron Page was not interested in dialogue in the slightest. I've met a number of New Republic partisans over the years and one thing they have in common - besides immense ambition - is an overriding hatred of the "looney left." (The Nader campaign probably drove a number them over the ledge.) So if they hate us for what we stand for (just as ObL hates the United States) I see no reason to turn the other cheek.
Peter