[jlev]

The London Review of Books is not "some hack's crappy blog". Check your critical thinking skills again; you might actually need a Master of Journalism to get published there.

[Taylorious]

I did not say that The London Review of Books was a crappy blog. I said that the article belonged on a crappy blog. Implying that it was like a poor quality rant from a personal blog and not worthy of being published in The London Review of Books.

[rdouble]

It's not really that bad, as far as these types of articles go. The opinion column staff at the NYT churns out a worse article nearly every day.