Dear Tina Brown,
Congratulations on your hiring of Pretty Boy Reactionary (PBR) to write a regular column for The Daily Beast. But it seems there might be a slight problem with the number of people reading and replying to his essays. I seem to be a lone voice in replying to his latest meditation on the dangers of the new social media, 'The Mash of Civilizations', in which he very cogently warns, of the inherent dangers, of these new communication tools in the hands of putative Arab Democrats. Ah! the charms of Conservative paranoia mongering, it is a long lived and vibrant tradition.The question still remains, even with PBR's impeccable intellectual credentials and his penchant for going against the grain of American Provincial Liberalism, he seems to be unable to generate the readers you might have hoped for.Cogitating Peter (CP) and Opinionator Emeritus(OE) seem to manage to garner both readers and comments in equal measure. Might it be that PBR is not quite as familiar with the Idioms of American English? Just a surmise.Perhaps,some more pointed commentary about the political and ethical virtues of British Colonialism might generate a more robust and vocal readership.
Best regards,
Stephen K. Mack