WE'RE BACK - AT 10:04 P.M. ET:  Just got back from a book party for Norman Podhoretz.  It was a pleasure to be in a room filled with right-thinking people.  Former Attorney General Michael Mukaysey was there.  He stood fast against terrorism, in contrast to...well you know who.

Fouad Ajami, the great scholar from Johns Hopkins, was also there.  A Muslim, who has never hesitated to speak openly of the tragedy of the Muslim world.

Some of the great journalistic heroes of our side attended - Frank Luntz, the group survey expert; Claudia Rosett and Anne Bayefsky, who rip open the dry rot at the UN; and Jim Taranto of the Wall Street Journal, who does Best of the Web Today. 

If the rest of publishing was only a third as rational as that room tonight, we'd all be in better shape.

September 16, 2009