'Douthat comma Ross' notices the Audacity of Mediocrity passing as "book" in some quarters today.
These books are the gaslight in the echo chamber of popular conservatism, a moth-flame to insulant inanity.
People can and ought to read what they want, but I worry when a cult develops in which such texts are treated as more than guilty pleasure ... so I agree with Ross suggesting what he has (who, at his best, gets 'Hitchen's Awards' for the erstwhile incisiveness of his 'furiously scribbled prose').
BIG THINK
To be complete, I do disagree with him about National Journal's cover on American retrenchment. To be sure, the U.S. economy has proven to be remarkably resiliant in the past ten years, but we (and our European allies) are also more exposed, economically and politically.
There is a chance for the next Democratic President to use the recognition of this fact to build a foreign policy orientation as significant as any in the last century.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Songs for the Choir: Popular Conservative Publishing
