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OVER the past year, the bile in the writings of left-wingers has become so extreme that even they have begun to notice. The New York Times's Nicholas Kristof, for example, devoted a recent piece (titled "Hold the Vitriol") to the intemperateness of the Left, while The New Republic's normally blithe-spirited Jonathan Chait wrote a lengthy apologia for his own hatred of Bush. If anything, the flurry of delightful economic news has increased the intensity of liberals' emotions, so much so that they are turning on one another like hungry cannibals. Witness Slate's announcement that "the long-awaited Krugman Gotcha Contest can begin. A prize, to be announced, for the reader ...