"Many, as a recent discussion I was in suggested, would rather invoke a Journalist of the Left or Right than think the various issues they are concerned with through for themselves." You, Lawrence, are not the best person to say this. Do you not, time after time, quote/cite/discuss Victor Davis Hanson's and Neill Ferguson's think-pieces? You have a blog piece called 'On Trusting Bloomberg More Than The Evidence'. What evidence do you give? A piece in the National Review by Andrew McCarthy. (What's his evidence? one word in a book subtitle.) E.g.. Judy Evans, Cardiff ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html