As the audience put down their glasses of complimentary wine and prepared to shuffle into the New York Public Library's subterranean auditorium to hear preternaturally youthful Harper's editor Roger Hodge lob softballs at revered public intellectual Naomi Klein about her new book The Shock Doctrine, we overheard a new media mogul grumbling to a crony, "Is this going to annoy me by being too lefty?" The answer turned out to be be, "Yup!"