We Are Not What We Were

On the National Review web site, David Frum boasts about the 350 or so email responses he has received to his diatribe against paleo-conservatives, with less than 10 being negative. The one negative email he chose to print was of the vile anti-Semitic sort, which is, by implication, evidence of the nature of the anti-war right. As a newspaper columnist myself, I strain mightily to resist the temptation, on a day when no good ideas are coming to mind, to write that predictable column quoting from the week’s nastiest emails. We all get the hate stuff, from left, right and … Continue reading We Are Not What We Were