Throughout the day I’ve received two kinds of email relating to Andrew Sullivan. About 80% were of the “Why do you bother?” variety (please: no need to send me more emails chiming in on this score). And about 20% were in his defense. I think the post speaks for itself. But I think there’s an argument to be made about partisan writing in a longer column, so I may save it for later (if I can do it without making it about Andrew). But, quite a few people seem to think my criticisms were simply invented to defend Ramesh. Well, Ramesh hardly needs me to defend him. And, more to the point, this has been an argument I’ve made in one form or another for years. See, for example these two columns, here and here.