A modest assessment

Of a so-called "backlash" against newly minted NYT columnist Ross Douthat, famous blogger Andrew Sullivan laments:

It's the price of such enormous, almost overwhelming, cultural power, I suppose.

Hopefully he's being facetious, but doesn't Sullivan usually dole out awards for just such crazily overwrought hyperbole?

Sadly, No! — The collected shorter Ross Douthats.