Skimming again, he seems to be mostly restating claims from previous rounds. His big new point seems to be that since I haven’t bothered rebutting his long attack on my article I must be tacitly conceding its truth. This is a very common move in arguments, and sometimes it’s even true. But it really is the case that I haven’t read his rebuttal. It really is the case that I don’t think it’s worth my time, based on the incompetence of the passages I have looked over. If Goldstein now decides to produce a book on this whole affair, he can be my guest. But I’m not going to go through it in detail–unless, perhaps, he collaborates with someone smarter.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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