What's wrong with the liberal position on the mosque | Michael Tomasky

First, housekeeping: no quiz this week. Maybe I left that part of my brain at the beach. I promise a good one next Friday.

Okay, now: maybe some of you are getting tired of the mosque controversy, and maybe some of you from outside the US have trouble understanding why it's dragging on so long. It's not only that it's being demagogued by people like Newt Gingrich, although it's mostly that. But the debate strikes very deeply at the most fundamental definitions of Americanism held by liberals a...