Writer Susan Sontag passed away this week, and the Washington (Com)Post eulogized her on Dec. 29 with both a front-page spread and a gigantic Style Section article taking up a full page, complete with several Mao-sized photos. To the Left, even death is political, as it deifies its public intellectuals. Thus, the Post refers to Sontag as “among the foremost thinkers about the meaning of art, politics, war, silence, and humanity.” (I suspect the Post meant “science,” not “silence”). She was “calcified into an icon,” a Post reporter blabbered, “a sort of walking statue, who didn’t so much go to … Continue reading The Passing of a Leftist Icon