Jonah Goldberg's upset that liberal bloggers aren't taking Ramesh Ponnuru's "Party of Death" seriously. Where are the reviews, the blog posts, the treatments!?
Well, they're in the cover. Goldberg is right that Ponnuru sports a rep as a substantive, smart guy. But so much as he's protested otherwise, the title of his tome appears to sum it up perfectly, and it's just not a thread of thought I find compelling enough to treat seriously. So for those of us unconvinced by his veneration of the blastocyst, Ponnuru's argument that abortion greases the slippery slope for infanticide is laughably unconvincing, seeming almost like a parody of how a book entitled The Party of Death would read.
But to Ponnuru, and apparently Goldberg, this all makes perfect sense. We simply don't share the same premises, I guess. I find his argument crazed, and engaging it would be like batting around the existence of Xenu with a scientologist. Nevertheless, some have taken Ramesh seriously, and handled his book with brilliance, elegance, and erudition. Check it out.
Update: Heh. If you're not keeping up with August's cartoons, you really should be. Nothing, save maybe Tom Tomorrow, beats them.
