the real left

In addition to an actually funny cover this week the New Yorker has an excellent profile of journalist and New Left icon Naomi Klein. The same way that it's great to see the Daily Show going after liberal orthodoxy on MSNBC, it is great to see a major figure that clearly articulates the value of and need for the radical left.

Also, the article does a great job of pointing out some of Klein's rhetorical problems (i.e. the way she tends to come up with an original explanation for a certain phenomenon, then almost kills it from overuse and application to cases that don't really apply) without throwing out the value of Klein's message. Highly recommended reading if you have a few minutes.