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« Contra Baudrillard | Main | Alex Beam's hate mail » Friday, March 9, 2007Bernard Lewis, going strongBernard Lewis, the noted scholar of the Middle East, visited the American Enterprise Institute this week to pick up its Irving Kristol Award, which has been given since 2003 to honor people who have "made notable intellectual or practical contributions to improved public policy and social welfare." The guy is 91, and remains active and feisty, if that's the word: In his AEI speech, he put in an unfashionable good word for the Crusades, according to this Wall Street Journal report, and said "terror" and "immigration" were the twin weapons Islam was deploying against the West. According to the National Review blog The Corner, "When Lewis was done, the first person to pop up from his seat for a standing ovation was Clarence Thomas."
The previous winners of the Irving Kristol Award are the historian David Hackett Fischer, novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, columnist Charles Krauthammer, and economist Allan H. Meltzer. Posted by Christopher Shea at 10:30 AM
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