Peter, I’m glad you’ve discovered what intelligent, loyal and helpful readers The Corner has. I’ve spent much of this weekend compiling an e-mail list of the 480 readers who wrote in to say “megadittoes” to my crunchy-con articles. I’m about to start mailing out interview questions for the research on my crunchy-con book (if you want to participate in the project and don’t think you’re on the list, write me at [email protected] and I’ll add you). Yesterday afternoon I re-read some of the letters readers sent on the crunchy-con topic, and I was bowled over all over again by the stories our readers told about their own lives and thoughts. What a wonderful thing the Internet is; before we had it, I doubt very much that many of us would have ever had the opportunity to learn each others names, much less share ideas and histories.

It’s 100 degrees here in Dallas, and time to return to the dog-eared paperback copy of The Conservative Mind that I accidentally liberated from the NR bookshelf. Sorry John Virtes, I’ll mail it back when I’m done.