Last week, I alerted readers to an excellent op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times by Rosa Brooks. Now, I'd like to direct you to that rarest of birds in contemporary American culture, an intelligent and winsome discussion between two people with different points of view: Brooks, who can be fairly called a liberal, and Ross Douthat of the Atlantic Monthly.

In their exchange on Blogging Heads TV, Brooks and Douthat discuss Virginia Tech, stupid adult preoccupations, global warming and abortion without once throwing things at the camera or even raising their voices, and yet expressing their disagreements, in ways that leave the viewer respecting both of them.

About recommending Blogging Heads TV: I am that big a dork.