The only thing RC2 disagrees with Ben Stein about in his column about the New Yorker's chummy treatment of a man who helped plan the Tet Offensive is his statement towards the end that the author of the story Stein is commenting on is, "a fine writer but a man whose piece lacks any moral compass at all."
There's a moral compass. It just doesn't point North.
Parenthetically, one of the most instructive aspects of JPG's public witness was his deep patriotism. Was there ever a person more truly a "citizen of the world?" And yet he never considered it beneath him to be fully and passionately what he was: a Pole. How tiresome cosmopolitanism is, and how much evil has been overlooked in its name in the past 100 years.
