Need to Get Us One of Those

Yes, Regnery Press is a home for right-wing hacks who probably wouldn't be able to get published anywhere else. Yes, it's a sad reflection on our country's literary values that Regnery has two books on the nonfiction bestseller lists. And yes, it's a travesty that Regnery published the most important book during last year's election, Unfit for Command, which flooded the zone with baseless lies about Kerry's Vietnam-era service.

But damn, hateful though it is, Regnery is amazingly effective in getting their message out and shaping the larger debate. The left could use a Regnery Press of its own (albeit one with higher publishing standards), a company which welcomed liberal writers and provided them a comfortable ideological space in which to work. A company which would put a higher value on a book's effective polemic than on its bottom line. So what do you say, Mr. Soros, want to chip in a few more dollars for the cause?