Judging A Book By Its Title, Ctd

by Patrick Appel

Jamelle Bouie reviews Kos's new book, American Taliban:

Like Liberal Fascism, American Taliban is anotherentry in the tired genre of "my political opponents are monsters."Indeed, Moulitsas begins the book with the Goldbergian declaration that"in their tactics and on the issues, our homegrown American Taliban arealmost indistinguishable from the Afghan Taliban." And he fills theremaining 200-plus pages with similar accusations. In the chapter onpower, Moulitsas writes that "the...