Ross Douthat on The Party of Death:

Death Came Knocking: One of the useful things about deciding that your political opponents are all theocrats bent on tearing up the liberal order, root and branch, is that it frees you from the pesky business of actually rebutting any of their arguments. Which is why, I suspect, I’m still waiting to read the first review, in the mainstream or the explicitly-liberal press alike, of Ramesh Ponnuru’s The Party of Death.
The official line, so far as I can tell, is that Ramesh’s book is beneath contempt because it includes a blurb from Ann Coulter, because Regnery played up the Democrat-baiting in the promotional materials, and because the title is impolitic enough to suggest that people who support the deliberate, legally- sanctioned killing of human embryos and fetuses (and the suicide of the elderly and the ill) do so not only out of anguished necessity, but because they think a “choice for death” is often the right choice to make. But of course the mainstream media doesn’t really think that Ann Coulter is beneath contempt, since no less an organ than the New York Times reviewed two of her last three books. Nor does anyone in the press seem to have a problem with inflammatory titles; why, Kevin Phillips lumped a third of America in with Khomeini, Bin Laden and Oliver Cromwell, and the Times rewarded his hysterical, half-baked, badly-written advertisement for his own intellectual decline – which I just had the misfortunate of slogging through – with a favorable, front-page review in the Book Review.
Ramesh’s book, by contrast, is extremely smart. It makes arguments, marshals evidence, attempts to persuade the unconvinced – all the sort of things that people on the left are forever accusing social conservatives of failing to do. Yet they cannot even be bothered to argue with it.

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