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To: Lane3 who wrote (2212)	3/12/2002 8:47:55 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

I'm happy with parts of that article. Oh, the gloating tone is unpleasantly boorish, but not unusual. THe rejection of overdone multiculturalism is (IMO) reasonable, if graceless. But this horror... Bush understands that the heat from burning jet fuel made the national mind akin to hot wax -- malleable. I'm not sure which is the worst... the image of US national thought as having the consistency and reasoning power of soft wax, the thought of Bush sculpting it into his own preferred shapes (an SUV and a missile, perhaps), or the indication that the writer approves of one or both of the above. O tempora! o mores!

To: Lane3 who wrote (2212)	3/12/2002 9:27:47 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Interesting editorial by Will, Karen, thanks for posting it. Lately I'm finding that I agree with parts of his missives, rather than disagreeing with them as a whole. I'm wondering if this is a change in my perspective, his style, or perhaps both. Have you or anyone else noticed a shift in Will's stances? I liked this, for instance: Gone, too, is the intelligentsia's consensus that the only absolute is relativism -- the doctrine that all values are mere "social constructs," hence equally arbitrary and evanescent. Since Sept. 11, America's mind is no longer so open that everything of value falls out. But was disappointed to see him spouting the old right-wing rhetoric that the Academy is a den of seething (and out-of-touch) liberals: It is axiomatic that everything changes except the avant garde, which in America is frozen in an adversarial pose toward the nation beyond the campus gates.