Long-time New York City politico Herman Badillo has an important new book out, One Nation, One Standard: How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups. Badillo, a long-time advocate of bilingual education, social promotion, and related measures has now rejected multi-culturalism, taking up a position within the Hispanic community much like that of Bill Cosby among African-Americans. Here’s John Fonte’s review of the book from today’s New York Post.

I’ll have more to say in February after another new book, Why I Turned Right, appears. Meanwhile, here’s a preview from Powerline’s Paul Mirengoff. I noted the “Lay’s Potato-Chip” quality of Why I Turned Right last month. Mirengoff makes the same point.