links for 2007-07-28

• Ezra Klein: Secret Media Manuals (Can't Follow the Action Without a Program!)
• Michael Kinsley: At The New Republic in the 1980s, when I was the editor, we used to joke about changing our name to "Even the Liberal New Republic," because that was how we were referred to whenever we took a conservative position on something, which was
• Rising Hegemon: Shorter Chuckles Krauthammer: "Talking to people I don't like is naive. However, bombing the fuck out of people I don't like is the soul of wisdom."
• Brian Beutler: Unlike either Ezra or Dana, I find Michael Gerson's addition to the Washington Post's editorial page to be an indefensible example of a lazy editorial desk relying for content on somebody whose qualifications seem to be a somewhat high prof
• Peter Beinart: An Accidental Radical
• Dana Goldstein: GOP Moms: Between a Rock and the Hard Right
• Daniel Larison: Brooks has fallen into the trap of citing this 1991-2005 figure about bottom-fifth earnings, and he has not been the only one. I do not assume ill will or a desire to deceive on his part here, but rather a far worse error--an irrepressibl