I was touched and moved by Corey Robin’s generous shout-out to me on his blog, in response to (yet another) annoying and simplistic blog by Nicholas Kristof, bemoaning…well, I won’t bore you with that. You should read Corey’s masterful takedown (and peruse more of his blog, if you aren’t doing so already) here. An excerpt:
“Take Yasmin Nair. Yasmin’s a writer in Chicago, with a PhD from Purdue. She’s also an activist. She’s impatient, she sees things the rest of us don’t see, she’s intemperate, she’s impossible, she’s endearing, and she’s unbelievably funny. Think Pauline Kael, only way more political. (Actually, Freddie deBoer did a pretty damn good job describing her work, so read Freddie.) She’s got two essays that I think are, as pieces of prose, brilliant: “Gay Marriage Hurts My Breasts” and “Why Is America Turning to Shit?“”
You can and should read the rest here.