Part of a press release I just received:

“Death of Conservatism” Author Tanenhaus to Deliver Feb. 1 Lecture at NYU — ”The Fate of Conservatism”
Sam Tanenhaus, the author of The Death of Conservatism, will deliver the 11th annual Irving H. Jurow Lecture, “The Fate of Conservatism,” on Monday, February 1, 5:30 p.m. in NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center (100 Washington Square East). The event is free and open to the public. Please call 212.998.8100 for more information.

That’s a nice upgrade, isn’t it? A few months ago, conservatives were dead. Now they have a fate. I’m open to debate about this, but it seems to me that, outside the realm of the supernatural, the dead do not usually have fates other than slow decomposition.

Oh, and let me anticipate e-mail: I know all the zombie jokes already!