Quote of the day: Don't hold back, Professor Wolfe. What do you REALLY think of Dinesh D'Souza and his new book blaming 9/11 on American leftists?

In his New York Times Book Review review of ultra-right arch-loon Dinesh D'Souza's The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 ("clearly designed to restore his reputation as the man who will say anything to call attention to his views"), Alan Wolfe (right) notes that at one point the author--

appeals to "decent liberals and Democrats" to join him in rejecting the American left. Although he does not name me as one of them, I sense he is appealing to people like me because I write for The New Republic, a liberal magazine that distances itself from leftism.

Professor Wolfe goes on:

"So let this 'decent' liberal make perfectly clear how thoroughly indecent Dinesh D'Souza is. Like his hero Joe McCarthy, he has no sense of shame. He is a childish thinker and writer tackling subjects about which he knows little to make arguments that reek of political extremism. His book is a national disgrace, a sorry example of a publishing culture more concerned with the sensational than the sensible."