From Rick Garnett at Mirror of Justice

Obviously, reasonable and thoughtful people — Catholics and non-Catholics — can and do disagree with Neuhaus about all kinds of things.  I am sure there are good, helpful, critical reviews of Neuhaus’s latest book in the works by engaged and informed Catholics and others who understand and are prepared to represent fairly and accurately — even if they reject — what it is that Neuhaus believes and proposes.  Such reviews and critiques — pieces that are more than just patricide-on-display — are entirely appropriate. 

But Linker — even though, again, he knows and has worked with Neuhaus — has not written such a review.  His blistering critiques would be powerful, if they were directed at a real person.  And, maybe they are . . . but that person is not Neuhaus.  At the end, things get nasty, and wacky:

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