She generally has little interest in Ireland, its culture or history. She traveled there a few years ago and had a thoroughly unpleasant trip. When I told her about Angela s Ashes a few years ago she told me she had no intention of reading it. Crowe and his friends just put a little more money in McCourt s deep and still deeper pockets. Not only are the book burners blundering clowns of the first order, but they are feeding an environment of intolerance that, in effect, promotes the crushing of ideas, instead of meeting them in the marketplace of ideas with better ones.
Book burning is as American as war, lawless government and political correctness.
He is at work on a series on Social Security for Lew Rockwell.