Then: Liberal journalists in the 1960s told us all to “Question Authority.”
Now: Journalists on the Left reminisce about the days when they were “The Voice of Authority.”
Van Jones wishes you would just “sit down and shut up,” and in a slightly more reserved way — and more on that in a moment — if you’re a blogger or Tea Partier, so does Joe Nocera of the New York Times.
They don’t have arguments. And increasingly, they don’t have authority, either.