The New Republic’s Leon Wieseltier must know Sarah Palin pretty well, since he has such a great handle on her interior life. “She is, quite plainly, a stranger to skepticism. . . . I find nothing phony in her, nothing cynical. She lacks the detachment from one’s own purposes that phoniness and cynicism (and genuine thought) require. She is too immediately what she is.” Within the ellipses comes a bitchy little quip about how “[t]hree of her five children exemplify articles of conservative faith.” What a pity none of them is a performance artist.