MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — To this Website’s own John Schwenkler, worthy proprietor of Upturned Earth. He is the latest soi-disant conservative to join the ranks of those whom our great high-priest Mark “My books are ‘Required Reading‘ but Kirk’s Aren’t”* Levin has called for their obvious derangement. John’s crime: A very nifty neologism that so aptly describes “Levinsane”, et al.: “Prefabricons”. I think John has a good one here, but he truly is no match for the incisive wit displayed by Levin (or one of his monkeys): It’s now John Schmuckler at The American Perversative.

Really, I get that Levin has some twisted interest in calling out us crypto-liberals masquerading as members of the Right, but you’d like to think someone as allegedly erudite as he could more cleverly insult the feeble-minded than with such childish monikers as “Conor Friedersdork”.

Then again, I reckon I shouldn’t expect too much from a guy who is so incredibly daft, if not legitimately mentally disabled, as to suggest that the best thing for the protesters in Iran is for our president not to “turn[ing] his back” on them. From someone as purportedly knowledgeable of history as Levin, this is simply sad. Or perverse. That’s the ticket. If, as Derbs called it so, this really is “Happy Meal Conservatism”, then Levin’s variety is, as they say, a few fries short thereof.

*It’s only fair that I note that, somehow, Buckley and Tocqueville make the list — on the last two pages. Also, despite Levin’s disdain for Rod, a book about a free-range chicken finds its way on the list, too! Go figure.

P.s.:A brief note of apology. I’ve been rather remiss in my contributions to Post Right and in the upkeep of NathanContraMundi, and for this I apologize. I have three or four ideas in the works, including a couple already drafted, and hope to get back to it soon.