Thinking About Sontag

When Orrin Judd trains his sights on fools, he often does so with a cold, ruthless efficiency. To wit, he writes this on the subject of Susan Sontag's latest:

This is a column of almost magnificent stupidity. Ms Sontag shows herself to be nearly oblivious to everything from history to vocabulary as she argues that radical Islam is a permanent feature of humankind against which we will have to act forever, and that those actions are not in the nature of war.

His entire post is well worth reading.

James Taranto also lists Sontag's column under the heading "Stupidity Watch" in his Best of the Web daily blog (which has long seemed mistitled to me, since he is usually critiquing some of the WORST of the web, but I digress).

Reynolds seems to like the Sontag column (no doubt confounding the InstaPunditWatchers of the world, who think warbloggers all take their cues from the professor). And Jonah Goldberg chimes in as well.

That's a lot of firepower for such an easy target.

[Posted at 22:21 CST on 09/10/02] [Link]