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This article appeared in the February 11, 2008 edition of The Nation.

January 23, 2008

RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON

Montpelier, Vt.

Welcome back, Stuart Klawans ["Film," Jan. 28]. I don't know where you've been, but I've missed you. With the issue that arrived in today's mail, I've resumed reading The Nation from back to front.

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About Eric Alterman

Eric Alterman is a Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Professor of Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is also "The Liberal Media" columnist for The Nation, a senior fellow and "Altercation" weblogger for Media Matters for America, (formerly at MSNBC.com) in Washington, DC, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC, where he writes and edits the "Think Again" column, a senior fellow (since 1985) at the World Policy Institute at The New School in New York, and a history consultant to HBO Films.

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