Overlooked reviews that shouldn’t be overlooked (er, by me, that is): Hitchens claims that some of his best friends are believers. If so, he doesn’t know much about his best friends. He writes about religious people the way northern racists used to talk about “Negroes” — with feigned knowing and a sneer. God Is Not… Continue reading

Former college classmate and now Our Man in Rome, Father John Wauck, says it’s too soon to give up on “old” Europe. He’s right.

I hereby second Jay Fitzgerald on his endorsements.

Friday dose of Krauthammer: It took Bush three years to find his general (as it did Lincoln) and turn a losing war into a winnable one. Baghdad and Washington are currently discussing a long-term basing agreement that could give the United States permanent military presence in the region and a close cooperative relationship with the… Continue reading

Nick Fraser, the editor at Storyville, is just one of the Brits sizing up the overrated and underrated for 2007: OverratedIan McEwan’s On Chesil Beach (and for that matter the overrated film based on another overrated book Atonement). McEwan’s work is in the image of contemporary British genteel culture; underpowered, negligible in impact and yet… Continue reading