Last Monday, Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, wrote a piece on Andrew Sullivan, staff writer at The Atlantic, maître d’ of The Daily Dish, and all-around nabob of web journalism. It was not a very nice piece. Most of it is assigned to an insidious strain of anti-Semitism to which Sullivan, wittingly or not, is supposed to have fallen prey . . .

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The lead-off spot in The New Yorker‘s “Talk of the Town” usually goes to the most serious political item, but this week the first entry plunges into a discussion of Obama and the White House’s recent spat with Fox News, drawing comparisons between Fox News’ audience and Cialis users: “Fox News shows should probably carry a warning: Contact your doctor if you have rage lasting more than four hours.”