You found it perceptive because it walks the yellow line down your Main Street. What his piece lacks is evidence of the very position he's advocating -- balance and the value of being fully informed. There are plenty of examples of countervailing personalities from the left who promote divisiveness. Just because they're not as good at it -- it's hard to sell dismissive head-shaking, auto-reflexive eye-rolling and smirking on the radio, especially when the audience already beat you to it -- does not mean they don't exist.

Fact-challenged outrage founded on anger and resentment has been what's kept one Democratic candidate almost upright lo' these many months. Deceit, contempt and entitlement work better for the other one. Taking issue with only one side of the political equation is surprisingly lazy advocacy from a professor, even of geography, whose worldview appears to be ironically flat.