{"id":476,"date":"2006-06-21T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/word-of-the-day\/06\/21\/intellectual-zingers-it-tastes-like-burning\/index.html"},"modified":"2006-06-21T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T16:30:20","slug":"intellectual-zingers-it-tastes-like-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/word-of-the-day\/06\/21\/intellectual-zingers-it-tastes-like-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual Zingers (it tastes like burning)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vqronline.org\/articles\/2006\/summer\/bissell-euphoria-perrier\/\">Zinged to the Nth degree, Mr. Kaplan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To be sure, there has been previous unrest in Kaplanistan. In 2000, the historian Robert Kagan noted Kaplan\u2019s \u201ccheap pessimism,\u201d his indifference \u201cas to whether societies are governed democratically or tyrannically,\u201d and his \u201cweak\u201d grip on history: \u201cJust about every historical event or political philosopher he discusses he gets at least half-wrong.\u201d In 1993, the Balkans expert Noel Malcolm gutted Kaplan\u2019s Balkan Ghosts for its many errors of fact and judgment; Kaplan\u2019s hapless response earned this rejoinder from Malcolm: \u201cThe basic problem, I think, is that Mr. Kaplan cannot read.\u201d Kaplan\u2019s new book, Imperial Grunts, in which one cannot be sure whether the latter word is a noun or a verb, has unleashed a new offensive. Writing in The New Republic, David Rieff takes Kaplan to task for his \u201cboneheaded nonsense.\u201d In the New York Times Book Review, David Lipsky laments that Kaplan \u201cappears to have become someone who is too fond of war.\u201d But these traits have been visible in Kaplan since his first book, as has his love of intellectual shortcuts and invincible humorlessness. Kaplan\u2019s real and growingly evident problem is not his Parkinson\u2019s grip on history, or that he is a bonehead or a warmonger, but rather that he is an incompetent thinker and a miserable writer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider yourself Zinged to the Nth degree, Mr. Kaplan: To be sure, there has been previous unrest in Kaplanistan. In 2000, the historian Robert Kagan noted Kaplan\u2019s \u201ccheap pessimism,\u201d his indifference \u201cas to whether societies are governed democratically or tyrannically,\u201d and his \u201cweak\u201d grip on history: \u201cJust about every historical event or political philosopher he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Intellectual Zingers (it tastes like burning) - Prose Before Hos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Consider yourself Zinged to the Nth degree, Mr. Kaplan: To be sure, there has been previous unrest in Kaplanistan. 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