Read it and weep.

• Author: Black, Caroline
• Position: Letters

Let's just put aside the opening of the "Coulter Clash" review (July/August), in which Jamie Malanowski takes the usual swipes at the Ann Coulter's personal appearance, and concentrate, instead, on the article's closing paragraph. "Anybody can be snide," he writes. "Anybody can be small, and mean, and disdainful. Coulter's especially good at it. The American people were tired of this bickering and this partisanship before September 11, and they understand completely that it serves no purpose whatsoever in our present predicament. We can no longer afford to luxuriate in insipid gamesmanship. Coulter's book is a waste of time."

What a hypocrite. Our...