This weekend, the New York Times online ran the first chapter of my book Framing the Debate, and a full-page review in the print version of the coveted Sunday books supplement--the holy grail of the publishing world.

"My book in the NYT!" I told my family, jumping up and down with joy. But the thrill was fleeting. Rising at dawn Easter morning to buy the paper, I quickly realized that the NYT "review" of my book was little more than a pretentious stunt by a gotcha journalist. One thousand words later, I stood accused of radiating "cynicism" and "undemocratic" vision, of treating the public like "Pavlovian" dogs, and of infecting the world with "insidious" immorality on par with the murderers of Julius Caesar.

Et tu, Feldman?

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