Another Book on the Reading List

Dang. It's always something.

First it was William F. Buckley's new autobiography, which awaits my perusal following Motherless Brooklyn.

And now, it's Roger Kimball's The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art.

Q&A with Kimball is available on the National Review's Web site. I read the article looking for excerpts to post here and found that exercise to be fruitless, primarily because I enjoyed it all and don't feel like quoting out of context.

I am not currently a subscriber to either The National Review or The New Criterion. I have a feeling I ought to be a subscriber to both.

All that comes before in this post is an example of what a little late-night Web surfing can do; I was going to link to Rich Lowry's Tuesday article, "W.'s Double Binds," which begins:

Sometimes a political figure becomes so hated that he can't do anything right in the eyes of his enemies. President Bush has achieved this rare and exalted status. His critics are so blinded by animus that the internal consistency of their attacks on him no longer matters. For them, Bush is the double-bind president.

It's an interesting article and kind of fun, even if you're not a rabid right-winger like I am.