I applaud Ian Parker's even-handed profile of Glenn Greenwald (if not the headline) in the September 3 issue of The New Yorker, and offe

​The D​emocratic Party​'s power brokers and certain members of the liberal intelligentsia are fixated on and often proffer a certain line. Perhaps you've come across it in social or other media phrased similarly to this, but I encountered it again today in a FB post. I'm not sure that phrase has any specific and useful meaning anymore. It's become a form of shorthand, of lecture for a particular point of view of reality shared by a faction of party loyalists. Some might con