Alan Jacobs


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Is liberalism any better off now that Juan Williams ‘got what was coming to him’ for going on Fox in the first place? Aren’t Fox News’s millions of viewers considerably less likely to have their assumptions challenged now that one of their more liberal commentators has a highly personal reason to drift rightward, or at least hold a grudge against the left? Indeed, doesn’t this imbroglio just guarantee that both NPR listeners and Fox News watchers will find themselves wound a little tighter in their respective ideological cocoons? I think so, and I don’t think anyone should be happy about it.