THREE DOTS

It’s good to see The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg back in top form. He’s not the first to argue that Ralph Nader
shouldn’t run for president — it’s hard to be first in a weekly magazine — but he marshals his
reasons, while still heaping praise on Nader, with a cogency I haven’t read elsewhere. … Leave it
to CNN’s Larry King to heap praise on Bob Dole, while choosing exactly the wrong word with
typical incoherence. As a political pundit, Dole is “an incredible source,” King says. … Thank God, or
Someone, that Paul Krugman is back from vacation. Without him
the Op-ed page of The New York Times goes as limp as a banana peel. … This is especially true
when David Brooks claims that the poor are to blame for
their poverty: All they have to do to live happily ever after is look in the mirror and
reform their “bad behavior.”

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