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Michael Berube, a progressive blogger, author, professor, and frequent critic of David Horowitz has a post talking about his new book coming out this fall: Woo hoo! I mailed my galleys back to NYU Press yesterday—and sure enough, caught a typo late last night. So I tossed and turned all night, dreaming of an eerie copyeditor who appears at my door saying, room for one more…. Did I mention that this will be my first book that includes a Tom Tomorrow cartoon? And that the cartoon was placed on the wrong page of the galleys? Fixing that little mistake will...

[Editor’s note. This is a continuation of the debate between Michael Berube and David Horowitz after the close of part one. For clarity, we have posted Horowitz’s responses to Berube’s original objections to DiscoverTheNetwork.org and then Berube’s replies. The exchanges are separated by asterisks.]                                   *            *            * Horowitz: How does the database “blur the distinctions between the mainstream left and the far far left” or “between the far left and liberals such as Barack Obama?” The database clearly identifies five categories of leftists:  “Totalitarian Radicals,” “Anti-American Radicals,” “Leftists,” “Moderate Leftists” and “Affective Leftists.” How are the distinctions blurred if they...