[Paul Ross]

But at least Steyn does a little more with his time than merely live in New Hampshire.

Not much other than pen a few words. But good words. And so does Auster.

[AmishDude]

And yet all that they could say about him, they could have called him a syndicated columnist or plug a book he's written or even a blog. No. All they could say is that he "lives in New York City."

And I am sick of your comparisons to Steyn. Steyn is a genius. His wordsmithing skills are unparalleled. Auster is a second-rate hack who publishes in web-only mags, most recently FrontPage, which is a fine magazine, but Auster isn't exactly in demand.

I have to admit, I have some admiration for Auster. He's a man with impeccable paleocon credentials: He spoke at the 1994 American Renaissance conference. According to David Frum (neocon extraordinaire), "[Samuel] Francis's speech at the 1994 conference of the white-supremacist American Renaissance organization, for example, ultimately cost him his job as a staff columnist at the Washington Times."

A quote from that speech:

"The civilization that we as whites created in Europe and America could not have developed apart from the genetic endowments of the creating people." — SAMUEL FRANCIS, SPEECH AT THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

Auster didn't deserve mention in Frum's paleocon article.

But he's been willing to engage the Muslim world and has been ashamed of paleo anti-Semitism.

He does, however, have a penchant for paranoia and a disturbing love of racialist language. From Larry's own blog on this very subject:

They don’t like America, it is still too particular, still too different from the rest of the world, still too white. They want America to be cast down and defeated, so that it can no longer stand in the path of true moral and human progress. What is true moral and human progress? The browning of the Western world, leading to the cultural homogenization and economic unification of the human race.

And this is not unusual for Larry's writing. For him, cultural differences are literally black and white (or to be current, brown and white). with a penchant for paranoia and a disturbing flirtation with racism:

It made Richard Cohen suddenly realize that if Gore and his minions keep pushing ahead with their audacious attempt to steal the nation's highest office, it could lead to the unthinkable: an uncontrollable uprising by white America against the left-liberal consensus that has ruled our country for the last several decades. 11/27/2000.

Just white America, Larry?

Sorry, the guy just leaves a bad taste in my mouth and I don't really care about what he says about anything.