January 21, 2007

Book Critic Quote of the Day

"I never thought a book by [Dinesh] D’Souza, the aging enfant terrible of American conservatism, would, like the Stalinist apologetics of the popular front period, contain such a soft spot for radical evil... Unlike President Bush, who once said he could not understand how anyone could hate America, D’Souza knows why Islamic radicals attack us. “Painful though it may be to admit,” he admits, “some of what the critics or even enemies say about America and the West ... may be true.” Susan Sontag never said we brought Sept. 11 on ourselves. Dinesh D’Souza does say it.
Alan Wolfe, teeing off on D'Souza's awful book, in the New York Times Book Review. Wolfe, you may remember, is the guy who bashed Michael Moore in TNR as "Chomsky for children," so it's nice to see him go after the loony right with the same gusto.

UPDATE: The Plank notices an interesting acknowledgement on the book.

Posted by Stephen Silver at January 21, 2007 11:36 PM
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