Interesting piece about French-bashing in the New York Times As seems to be the fad these days, the author cites me but won’t use my name (The Economist, The Times of London, and the Washington Post have also followed this pattern in recent weeks.). But he breaks with the trend to the extent he doesn’t use the cheese-eating sur….oh you know the phrase. Rather, he takes me to task for my use of the word “perfidious”:

A columnist for National Review has applied the words at various times to the French Revolution, Title IX, secular humanism and the metric system — not exactly things that a Victorian heroine would be tempted to address with an epithet like “false betrayer!”