[Texas Eagle]

In February, Mr. Peretz published in TNR a quite remarkable essay declaring that Liberalism, his only intellectual/political home for all his adult life "... is now bookless and dying. ...

Somebody ping every spineless Republican in Washington.

[AntiBurr]

"They're churls, peasants, boors, rude louts with a grudge."

I've always rather liked the quote from a quote from Cyrino de Bergerac, "lewd fellows of the baser sort". It really has more flavor than churls et al.

[Dutchgirl]

To sell a book there must be some element of truthfulness...without a shred of truth, there is no "willing suspension of disbelief." In the past, the left has always taken that a reason to "lie harder." Apparently, the market for lies is a little flat right now.

Some pithy reminders from CS Lewis

"[Pain] removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul."

And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies' plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger."

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography."

"Hatred obscures all distinctions."