Time for an update

John Miller in National Review(2002):

In 1982, Susan Sontag sparked a bristling controversy on the left with this confession: "Imagine, if you will, someone who read only Reader's Digest between 1950 and 1970, and someone in the same period who read only The Nation or The New Statesman. Which reader would have been better informed about the realities of Communism? The answer, I think, should give us pause. Can it be that our enemies were right?"

I now propose that we concede that those who read the novels and journalism of Tom Wolfe have a far better understanding of modern America than those who spent the last two decades reading the New York Times.

Black nationalists provide security for rape accuser

DURHAM -- An official with the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense said the black nationalist organization is providing security for the woman who has accused Duke lacrosse players of raping her.

UPDATE: The odd intersections of extremism. It's worth noting that the second KKK grew out of the lynching of Leo Frank for the rape-murder of Mary Phagan. The press loved that case, too. So the NBPP follows in the footsteps of the Klan.