Posted
4:13 PM
by Gene
I can recall when the twerps at
Spy (and Graydon Carter was the twerp-in-chief) derided Leon Wieseltier as a pretentious fraud (they called him "Lay-ON Vee-sel-tee-AY"), and he did write over-intellectualized bunk -- like the time he defended his "friend" the Slick-appointing sleazeball Joe Klein. But after 9/11 he wrote a jeremiad of Biblical intensity against preening aesthetes like John Updike who used the barbarities as an excuse for bad writing, and
now he thunders against the mealy-mouthed essayist (and former TNR contributor) Louis Menand for dumping on Orwell. At his best he's good.