From a reader:

Jonah,
You should mention that the “Editors’ Favorites” of course encompass all the usual progressive sacred-cows: FDR, RFK, JFK, anti-Nixon, anti-Jefferson (the Hemingses?)…and comic books. Because Lord only knows, a recap of comic-book history is more compelling and critical to current philosophical/historical/political thought than a book on the primary political force of the 20th century. Idiots. We are surrounded by idiots.

For the record, I dissent on the comic book part.