re: #18 lawhawk

Weigel has a take on this, and notes that even Richwine’s advisers have backed away from the conclusions that he reached - namely because he overreached on the relationship and implications.

Reading Weigel’s take is always more interesting when you know he wrote this:

Who can get enough of Dinesh D’Souza? I can’t. And my favorite response to the article is this pithy one from Steve Sailer , the underappreciated and un-P.C. writer on race who rightly sees D’Souza’s “Kenyan anti-colonialism” thesis as a watering down of Sailer’s own thesis in his book, America’s Half-Blood Prince .

It’s not a terribly well-done article — D’Souza’s attempts to draw straight lines between Obama’s intellectual heritage and various current Obama Administration policies are often silly. Yet, the outraged response to D’Souza’s piece just shows how few people out of the millions who have bought the President’s memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance have actually read the book, and how many fewer have read it with the care it deserves.

Ryan Chittum gets some good licks in , but Sailer’s pretty much got it. The problem is that D’Souza is giving the quick-and-wrong read to conservatives. [Emphasis added.]

…and you know who Steve Sailer is.

Here’s Weigel on Derbyshire (also the two following columns, linked above the article).

Weigel may be maintaining a valuable familiarity with these people thereby providing needed close coverage of them, or he may be pallin’ around and sympathizing. Or both.