From conservative infighting, we move to liberal infighting. In a recent essay in the London Review of Books, Tony Judt heaved the worst insult you could possibly throw at American liberals – he accused them of being insufficiently anti-Bush. “Why have American liberals acquiesced in President Bush’s catastrophic foreign policy?” Judt asked as his opening salvo. Not to take that lying down, the American Prospect has published a manifesto signed by prominent liberals, dismissing Judt’s claims as “nonsense” and arguing that yes, in fact, they really really hate Bush and have been saying so all along.

Among the 46 signatories are Bruce Ackerman and Todd Gitlin (the manifesto’s author’s), Eric Alterman, Robert Reich, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Jane Smiley, and Michael Tomasky.