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"If most political books are any indication, the way we argue now has been shaped by cable news and Weblogs; it's all 'gotcha' commentary and attributions of bad faith," says Alan Wolfe. "Yet if the technologies used by bloggers and hardballers are new, the form is older than the Republic. While they appear as books -- and are staples of the best-seller lists -- today's give-no-quarter attacks, as George Packer noted recently of bloggers, have their origins in the pamphlets of the colonial era. Was Wolfe noch über das Thema zu sagen hat, kann man in der NYT nachlesen. Und dank des nützlichen NYT-Link-Generators von Librarian.net braucht man sich nicht extra dafür anmelden. :grin: