By Ed Driscoll · August 25, 2007 12:49 PM
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The Return of the Primitive ·
War And Anti-War
I'm only surprised at how long it took him to join the rest of the conspiratorial denizens in the Star Wars cantina; as Charles Johnson writes, the pomposity of his headline is a classic.
Update: Victor Davis Hanson adds:
Two observations come to mind.
First, we know why there is now a colloquial verb in English "to fisk."
Second, The "Even I" of Fisk's title should read "Especially I."
These are sad times in the West, but the inevitable wages of a quarter-century of elite postmodern thought.
Speaking of which,
David Frum has an amusing look back at how one of postmodernism's founding fathers was seduced by the Iranian revolution.