Civil Commotion
The Intersection of Religion, Law, and Politics
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Essayist Susan Sontag has died of leukemia. She was 71.
She is characterized in all of the initial reports of her death as one of America's leading intellectuals. This is typical:
Susan Sontag, one of America’s most influential intellectuals, internationally renowned for the passionate engagement and breadth of her critical intelligence and her ardent activism in the cause of human rights ...Sontag was relentlessly anti-American in her thinking, characterizing America's military reaction to the 9/11 attacks as the work of a "rogue state."
Contrast that with media characterizations of Reggie White.


