Today At Tnr (2/7/09)

• Luck Of The Withdrawal: What Are The Right And Wrong Ways To Bow Out?, by Jason Zengerle

• Why Bill Kristol's Terrible 'NYT' Column Was So Valuable To Its Readers, by Michael Schaffer

• Radical Nationalism Is On The Rise In Israel--And That’s Scary Going Into Tuesday’s Elections, by Arik Ben-Zvi

• The N-Word: The Financial-Sector Fix That Dare Not Speak Its Name--Nationalization, by The Editors
• 'Defiance’ Is Flawed, Yet I’m Still Grateful That It Exists, by Stanley Kauffmann
• TNRtv: Are The Republican Objections To The Stimulus Legit? Do They Have Reasonable Alternatives?, by Noam Scheiber and Ramesh Ponnuru
• Remembering John Patrick Diggins (1935-2009), An Historian 'To The Right Of The Left And To The Left Of The Right,' by Ronald Steel

And, as always, be sure to check out the current issue of the print magazine, environment and energy coverage on The Vine, the latest on health care in Jonathan Cohn's The Treatment, and Marty Peretz's The Spine.