century ago and god and man at yale. the idea that the universities, great citadels of learning were fonts of secularism and anti-religious thinking. there s a lot of that out there right now. it gives space for frankly uneducated candidates to get away with attacking the press rather than showing what they know. with a lot of the new candidates from the tea party, a few months ago, they were complete obscurities, many of them had no backgrounds whatsoever. that didn t matter. they were raw, they were real, they spoke the language of the tea party. now they ve been dragged on to the public stage. they don t want to talk to us, meaning reporters, and unlike a generation ago, when they felt some duty to speak and to answer questions, sarah palin and others have taken the route of saying, we re not answering your questions because you re part of the enemy. and so be it. and that s going to be the dynamic from now through november 2nd. the irony, of course, is the tea party would consume