I have to play catch with my daughter as I promised, so I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to get into this in more detail, but since Ramesh successfully baited Hayward into responding to that Straussianism piece, I was wondering if I could bait some of my fellow Cornerites to look at Tom Edsall’s piece in TNR , (Reg requ’d) which is based on his new book.

It is a very strange article if you ask me. Note: I didn’t say bad or good, but strange. But I want to sleep on it before I weigh-in, because I can’t quite put my finger on why I think that.