It is difficult to praise Ponnuru’s work too highly. In fact, the effusive praise the book has received can, in itself, be misleading. Our culture has become so saturated with superlatives that readers become reflexively dismissive of hype. What then can be said about a book that is, by turns, prophetic, illuminating, and devastatingly witty? The highest praise I can give The Party of Death is that, like Tiffany’s treatise, it will eventually go unread. Recognition of human dignity will inevitably prevail, and when it does, no one will need Ponnuru’s book to destroy the absurd and ridiculous views of the “party of death.”
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
The Party of Death
Joe Carter reviews Ramesh Ponnuru's Party of Death, and closes this way: