The American Spectator

today — Ed.] and the Weekly Standard all agree that it’s a good and important book, isn’t that enough in itself to explain if not to justify why no more mainstream or liberal publication has bothered to review it at all? It’s true that New York Times columnist John Tierney gave the book and me a flattering write-up , but otherwise I have been stuck in the right-wing journalistic ghetto. It was in the hope of avoiding this fate that I deliberately avoided, as far as possible, anything Ann Coulterish, so as not to give, say, the New York Times Book Review any excuse for ignoring it as a winger book. Even if the Times had given me the Harvey Mansfield treatment , which I commented on last March 22, it would have been forced to show, as it did in that case, its own incapacity for understanding or intelligently criticizing a serious argument about honor and so made my point about the Post-Honor Society.