Spengler, the brilliant columnist for the Asia Times, is reputed to be an Australian gentleman of a certain age, with a Ph.D in Anthropology at Columbia University obtained when that was still a first-rate program. He brings a rare level of cultural insight and depth to the discussion, the sort which is so often lacking on the American Right, dominated as it is by economists and those who eschew psychology. In his most recent column, the pseudonymous Spengler considers what we can discern about Barack Obama by the women closest to him: his mother and his wife. He has a thing or two to say about Michelle Obama’s resentments — beginning with the point that husbands and wives don’t necessarily like the same things, but they always hate the same things. More interesting still, Spengler has a few interesting observations about what young Barack actually might have learned in his mind-broadening years abroad in the post-colonial third world.