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Writer Eric Alterman tells Moyers liberals need to regain ‘fighting spirit’

Writer and historian Eric Alterman appeared on the April 20 edition of “Moyers and Company” to discuss his new book The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama. In a wide-ranging and thoughtful discussion, Alterman makes the case to Bill Moyers that while social liberalism…

Netroots Attack!

Via Yglesias, much of the focus on this Politico piece is on Richard Cohen’s insistence that criticism equals totalitarianism. But the far stranger part is the fact that in a three-page article, the person they trust most to embody the Netroots critique of the media is…Eric Alterman. Now, I think…