I just got in the mail the new issue of The New York Review of Books. It features an article by Bill McKibben that begins as follows: “Radio receives little critical attention . . .” Then, a couple of paragraphs down, the following: “If you landed in a spaceship someplace in America searching for thoughtful and nonpartisan culture, your first stop would be the public radio stations . . .” (As a magazine guy, my heart goes out to the New York Review editors. Who could have predicted that this particular production week of theirs would feature a truly national Two Minutes’ Hate against NPR? I mean, NPR has had a liberal bias since the dawn of time; who would have expected that, suddenly, everyone would notice, and get angry about it?)