but it’s actually in the Washington Monthly, where it fits poorly with the smart book reviews by Carl Cannon and Kevin Drum. I’m talking about the review of Kate O’Beirne’s book by Jamie Malanowski. There are actually a few reasonable points worth addressing in the review. (Well, semi-reasonable: Even if college football is doing more damage to men’s college wrestling teams than current interpretations of Title IX are, that would hardly establish that the latter make any sense.) But the whole thing is too full of dumb malice for it to be worth picking those points out. E.g.: “O’Beirne … for years could be counted on to appear on ‘Capital Gang’ and denounce all things liberal in the archly miffed tone typically employed by mothers at PTA meetings who aren’t happy that Elaine and Jackie are always in charge of Pizza Day.” Nice. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that a liberal magazine would deploy sexism against a conservative woman–or that it would find a writer from Playboy to do it.