The other thing that I think I would argue even more strongly today than when we wrote
the book is that convergence goes in both directions. So it is not just everybody else
becoming more like the liberal model, but there are some ways in which the liberal countries
are becoming more like Europe. And the most important thing is the re-emergence of
political parallelism, the re-emergence of partisan media in the United States. And that
actually started in some sense with religious broadcasting, but it’s continued to become
increasingly important. Also, one of the places where you find it most evident is on the
Internet. So the fact that we do not discuss the Internet in the book makes that a little less
obvious than it could have been. But the places where you find the re-emergence of political
parallelism in the liberal countries are above all in cable television, in radio and on the
Internet.