Ann Coulter has apparently decided that red meat beats serious thinking any day (after all, her speaking fees would plummet if her audiences were limited to rational beings). Even Aquinas wanted to talk to the Mohammedans — “We have Aristotle in common,” he said. But for Ann, the enemies of us Manichees are all animals. Here, Ann reverts to the primitive view of the pre-Aristotelean barbarians). Ann pretends to have a razor-sharp, lawyerly mind, but she resists dulling it on the hard rock of reality. She celebrates Bush’s Knesset speech, but does not object to Bush’s blatantly unconstitutional (and decidedly … Continue reading Coulter’s cold, red meat