National Review Online interviews Mary Eberstad t about her new book, “New Atheism,” and the Facebook generation:
LOPEZ: Does the Right not do enough of this type of writing?
EBERSTADT: The Right doesn’t get nearly enough credit for the fact that the funniest writers are on the libertarian-to-conservative side of the spectrum — P. J. O’Rourke, Dave Barry, Jonah Goldberg, Rob Long, Andrew Ferguson, Mark Steyn . . . the list goes on, and, of course, at its top is the master, Tom Wolfe. The ideological imbalance, I think, is due mainly to the fact that the Left hands the Right so very much material worth satirizing. That said, a black comedy delivering orthodox apologetics remains a rare sighting — the literary equivalent of a duck-billed platypus.
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