Timothy Garton Ash has a long essay in The New York Review of Books about anti-Europeanism in America. I haven’t read it through yet, but I’m featured prominently as a leading anti-European pundit. I met with Garton Ash a couple months ago and was very impressed with him. His book The File is amazing. I don’t know how favorably I come out in his essay, but I’m sure he made every effort to be fair. I’m going to read it now. But I think the footnotes are particularly amusing. Here are the first seven:

[1] The Guardian, November 13, 2002.

[2] Jonah Goldberg believes he coined this term[Euroweenie], and relates it etymologically to a wiener sausage—as a metaphor for the European spine. However, an earlier coinage seems to be P.J. O’Rourke’s Rolling Stone essay “Terror of the Euroweenies.”

[3] Policy Review, No. 113 (June/July 2002). A book-length version will shortly be published as Of Paradise and Power (Knopf).

[4] Attributed to him by the London Times, July 9, 2002, quoting what someone told the Times journalist that Shirley Williams said that Tony Blair said that President Bush said to him. Blair’s spokesman, Alastair Campbell, denied that Bush said anything of the sort.

[5] Jean-François Revel, L’Obsession Anti-Américaine (Paris: Plon, 2002).

[6] June 12, 2001. For an Englishman this does raise an urgent question: What on earth is “British bologna”?

[7] Jonah Goldberg was the only person I met who was prepared to accept that he was “anti-European,” so long, he explained, as one means by “European” a certain kind of know-it-all, bureaucratic, liberal internationalist in Paris or Brussels.