Hanna Cops Out
by
mundane
09/21/2007, 12:27 PM
Hanna, you owe David Kuo an apology for bailing on the debate. What's more, I think your last-minute evasion shows the shallowness of your approach to writing about evangelicals. If you're going to be my guide to a group like Patrick Henry students, I expect you to think through their positions, digest them, and present the implications. To pose as an unmediated conduit of what you saw and heard while among them (I'll take notes") is a cop out, journalistically and intellectually. You wrote the book, no one forced you, right? And presumably you wrote it to give context to these people and their ideas in our political life, right? To claim that you're not implicated in any talk about Christian themes like "repentance, admonition, exhortation"--is to say that your book is not worth our time. To yield to one of your subjects to speak to David implies that he's not worth your while either. He deserves better.