STANLEY KURTZ says that liberals should read conservative magazines since conservatives read liberal publications:

Last year, liberal political theorist Cass Sunstein put out a ridiculous little book about the dangers of the Internet called Republic.com. His argument was that the web is allowing people to isolate themselves from contrary opinions. The places Sunstein held up as dangerous examples were all conservative sites like townhall.com and Free Republic. If Professor Sunstein had actually read the conservative web, he’d have seen that conservative sites are preoccupied — even obsessed — with the liberal media, a media they know intimately.

He’s right. Of course, Sunstein was ignorant of the blogosphere, which answers all of Sunstein’s concerns without requiring the government coercion that Sunstein advocated.