ROGER KIMBALL: TEA LEAVES IN THE WORKS. “The sound of cognitive dissonance can make an awful racket. Consider the review by Alan Brinkley of some new books about the Tea Party movement that appeared in the Sunday Book Review of The New York Times.”

Related: The Electric Tea Party Acid Test. “The truth is: Hippies didn’t particularly like Lyndon Johnson, the Democrats, or their ’60s-era ‘Great Society’ big-government programs. Look at the poster on the right for a typical opinion, untouched by the revisionism of later historians.”