The current issue of the New Yorker has an article by staff writer Adam Gopnik, who spent part of his childhood up north, titled, “We Could Have Been Canada: Was the American Revolution such a good idea?” The notion that liberals hate America is an intellectually lazy ad hominem attack indulged by far too many on the right. But when you dedicate 4,500 words to Gopnik’s premise, well, let’s just say it becomes a lot harder to protest should people start unkindly questioning the man’s patriotism.