The New Yorker may or may not be atop of Sarah Palin’s reading list (one sort of assumes not) but that hasn’t stopped The New Yorker from reading and reviewing Sarah Palin‘s memoir Going Rogue. What they have to say may surprise you.

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Like adept professors, Newsweek‘s Jon Meacham and Sam Tanenhaus of the New York Times covered the historical context for the current state of conservatism, and solicited opinions and observations from the engaged crowd. As they discussed the future directions of politics, it felt as though the pair was running an advanced level political science class.

“We’re talking to ourselves. It’s like we have built this conservative ghetto — like the Warsaw Ghetto — where we have put ourselves ideologically in a box, and we shout and scream and yell at each other, but we need to get out and we need to start talking to the center of America where elections are won .”

— Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, in discussion with Sam Tanenhaus about his latest book, The Death of Conservatism, on the echo chamber of current Conservative thought.