My friend Dimitri Cavalli pointed me to an article in Foreign Policy—and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a gap this big between a deliberate title and an essay:
“Why Did the Pope Keep Quiet About the Holocaust?” is the title. Now read the text—and see how you could possibly get to that title from the essay on Bishop Galen that follows.




May 6th, 2010 | 8:36 pm
A’ight – is anyone else as excited as I am at how much Joseph Bottom we’re getting at firstthoughts just now (and, it is to be hoped, in future?).
May 6th, 2010 | 8:38 pm
Although I should spell his name right Joseph Bottum. That was not a dig, my fingers have their own spelling rules.
May 6th, 2010 | 8:47 pm
“is anyone else as excited as I am at how much Joseph Bottum we’re getting at firstthoughts just now”
I’m sure not, John. That Bottum character writes slow and strange, like a overcooked molasses.
May 7th, 2010 | 10:58 am
Slow, strange, but interesting. (I just realized that description makes you one of my honorary family members.)
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