Best read of the day

Yesterday it was Walter Russell Meade, today's writing gem comes from James Wolcott in Vanity Fair.   "Where did Piers Morgan come from? And is there any way to send him back?" Wolcott absolutely nails the show as hosted by Larry King but he reserves his most wicked writing for Piers Morgan. And every conservative in the U.S. But his observations, acute and biased as they are by his Liberalism, are so loftily crafted that you yearn for the art of writing that has long been drained from the empty quills given to the marching idiot columnists that newspapers employ today.

That the Left (and those uncommitted at least publicly to the Left) has so few writers of this caliber says something about their decline. The Left may have a near monopoly on publications, but you don't need a printing press these days to disseminate your writing. Good writers, however, are harder to find.

The Right has been gifted with the likes of Mark Steyn, Jonah Goldberg, Ann Coulter, Thomas Sowell, Dennis Prager, Michael Barone, Walter Williams, Victor Davis Hanson, hundreds of Townhall columnists and just about every single writer at the Social Affairs Unit ("The Social Affairs unit is famous for driving its coach and horses through the liberal consensus scattering intellectual picket lines as it goes [and] for raising questions which strike most people most of the time as too dangerous or too difficult to think about.” (The Times) [of London in case you need the clarification.]

Visiting the Social Affairs Unit site yields such gems as Murder in Yeovil: Theodore Dalrymple explains why the correct use of language is the key to restoring health to our polity. The Social Unit publications are available at Amazon and their sellers. Start with "Faking It - The Sentimentalisation of Modern Society," a collection of essays that include a brilliant piece by Mark Steyn.