The other day, in “Angry Talk,” I reviewed Peter Wood’s new book, A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now. Today, in “The Liberalitarian Dust-Up” Wood extends his cultural analysis of our anger-filled politics to a new development. Wood uses the “liberalitarian” controversy to make a couple of points. First, while “New Anger” is found at all points on the political spectrum, it is not symmetrical. New Anger’s home-base is on the left. Here, for example, in a dispute that gives conservatives, and perhaps some libertarians, reason to be mad, only the left (which is offered a benefit) goes for “performance anger.” The liberalitarian case also shows that angry politics can’t be explained as a mere response to President Bush or the war in Iraq. Instead, it’s part of a new cultural style.