I’d advise the people who are criticizing Jonah to wait a while and read the book—not because they have any great moral obligation to do so, but because what they have to say then will be a lot more interesting than anything they’re saying now. Sullivan’s review of D’Souza’s book, for all its flaws, was much better than his blog posts on books he hasn’t yet read have tended to be.From the bits of the book I’ve read in draft form, I can already see that some of the criticisms are misinformed—and not by the title and subtitle so much as by the critics’ own presuppositions of what “fascism” means, which Jonah effectively challenges.

About the Author
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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