Lord knows I take backseat to no man in my admiration of our polymathic pal, Steve Hayward. But I think this statement at No Left Turns is unfair to Dinesh D’Souza:

Finally, I have a new category for a certain kind of right-wing polemicist: I’m going to call them “Ann D’Souzas,” or “Dinesh Coulters.” And I’m not going to discuss them. It ends here. No–don’t even try. Just forget it. Who?

Me: Whatever category you think Ann Coulter belongs in, I don’t think it’s the same one as Dinesh D’Souza resides in. Dinesh’s latest book is flawed and he’s provocative, but his intent is not to shock for shock’s sake and he engages his work on a level of scholarship that Ann doesn’t. You can be an enormous fan or foe of both, but I don’t see why your feelings for one should jibe with your feelings for the other.