From Reason to Treason

‘Our age,” Julien Benda wrote in The Treason of the Intellectuals, “is indeed the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds.”

That came to mind recently when I saw the following headline on Salon: “A guy most famous for saying ‘F*** You Michael Moore’ is now marrying Bristol Palin.” Now, whatever you may think of Moore, Palin, or “the guy” in question, the asininity of this statement transcends time and space. For you see, “the guy” in question is Dakota Meyer, the second-youngest living Medal of Honor recipient and the first living Marine to earn the medal in nearly 40 years.