Today in Gratifyingly Acute Criticism
- Irin Cameron with a wonderful dismantling of Caitlin Flanagan. Of course, “unproven gender essentialism and barely-disguised contempt for a woman with whom she purports to be empathizing” is an accurate summary of virtually all of Flanagan’s past and no doubt future writings.
- MZS on Californication.
- Roy on the real victims of the Tucson shooting, conservative white men.
- Duss on Max Boot.
- …and Katha Pollitt on Naomi Wolf makes it an even 5.