Magnificent!
Ditto, if you'll pardon the pun.
If I had read this column knowing who wrote it, I'd say that the author is a great American. And so he is spirit, if not in fact. Even without getting into his moral clarity and courage (though they are central to the other issues), Steyn is like a soldier who has picked up his much larger, heavier buddy, and carried the badly wounded man on his back across the battlefield, amidst exploding mortars and screaming shells to safety.
That wounded buddy is the English language.
Bump! Steyn, Sowell, Keyes ... why God gave us English!