John, I thought Shafer’s larger critique of the magazine was a little weird. He says the magazine hasn’t been sufficiently Democratic. He also complains that it has winnowed its obsessions with race, Al Gore, and Israel down to just Israel. I haven’t found the magazine to be monomaniacal about Israel in recent years. But given that the magazine’s older coverage of race was skeptical of racial preferences and identity politics, wouldn’t keeping that obsession made the not-Democratic-enough problem worse?