The American Spectator

br> Like so many these days, Elinor is a recovering liberal, just past the denial stage. She’s a magnificent writer, despite the fact that she graduated top in her class from Columbia Journalism School and has written for the New York Times . In this bizarre and hilarious travelogue, Burkett describes her travels to the Axis of Evil and beyond in the year following the 9/11 attack. Her description of “why they hate us” is the best I have heard: They hate us because we are the Prom Queen. If America were wracked with poverty, disease, and self-doubt, the “rest of the world” would like us again. This explains a lot about the Democrats’ policy proposals. /p> p> Unfit for Command by John E. O’Neill and Jerome R. Corsi: br> Anyone reading this magazine who has not already read Unfit for Command has hereby earned the title: “Tucker Carlson.” /p> p> The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It by Phyllis Schlafly: br> Given all that she’s already done to save America, it’s amazing that Schlafly is still the intellectual Energizer Bunny, precisely when and where the country needs her. While liberals set to work looking for more Anita Hills to deploy against President Bush’s possible Supreme Court nominees, conservatives should be memorizing this highly readable and important book.