Al Gore gets more interesting every year.

Al Gore has given a major address in which he laments the death of "the marketplace of ideas" as propaganda becomes the dominant form of mass discourse, and he argues that America has entered an "alternative universe" where politicians are no longer accountable to truth. While he has a more generous view of "the founding fathers" than I do his point that the leaders who wrote the constitution and sought out to create a new Republic were committed to a deep appreciation of a broad humanism is well taken. I only wish he had talked like this back when he was running for President.

Funny, same thing happened to Jimmy Carter.