The Intellectual Bankruptcy of the Right

As a conservative Christian with zero toleration for rock music, the last magazine I ever expected to read was Rolling Stone. However, while in an airport recently, I inherited a copy left on a table in a restaurant. What caught my eye was not AC/DC on the cover, but the three articles that were mentioned: Mexico at War: The Drug Lords vs. the Government My Campaign Memories, by Matt Taibbi The Bailout Profiteers, by Naomi Klein The articles were excellent, even though Taibbi clearly favored Obama. Why is it that one never reads articles like these in, let’s say, the … Continue reading The Intellectual Bankruptcy of the Right