Ralph Nader is starting a campaign to fix the New York Times. With any luck, he'll be able to break them out of that conservative rut that they've fallen into.

Very firmly liberal public intellectual Steven Pinker recently upbraided Richard Dawkins for letting "the way Richard wishes conservatives were" make its way into analysis relying on "the way conservatives are" (hackneyed phrases ours, not his). The idea is that if you don't have at least a vague idea for the breadth of the mainstream political spectrum, then you end up thinking that centrists are extremists - and you therefore lose the center. Trust Bill Maher to demonstrate why Pinker is right - and how the left is still trying to snatch cultural defeat from the jaws of political victory.