Reviews From   Saturday, September 13th, 2003   The Middle Mind:
Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves  by Curtis White  A
review by Gerry Donaghy  After reading The Middle Mind, I've
come to the conclusion that its author, Curtis White, is the
intellectual equivalent of the grumpy old man yelling at kids to
get out of his yard. Think of him as Allan Bloom with a
pretentious vocabulary.  I love reading books on both sides of
the debate regarding politics and culture (especially Ann
Coulter, one of America's most underrated comediennes). I
particularly like the implied togetherness of these tomes. No
matter who the author is (Michael Moore, Bill O'Reilly, or, in
the more scholarly sense, Stanley Fish, or Julia Kristeva), they
always take the "well, everybody is so stupid, evil, or just
ignorant, but not us, dear reader" approach. They preach to the
converted and these books only serve to reinforce their readers'
deeply entrenched ideology. Don't get me wrong, I loved Al
Franken's new book, but I seriously d