A couple of weeks ago, I determined that some conservatives don't understand ordinary English words. Apparently this is still a problem: InstaPundit -- who, you may recall, is a professor -- links a post by Volokh in which, InstaPundit says, Volokh "is condemning French unilateralism." Now go to the Volokh post itself: Not only does Volokh describe the Iraq policy of (come on, you can guess) the French as "unilateralism," he suggests in the title of the post that the French are "going it alone." Needless to say, they're not "going it alone" -- France is one of eleven members of the Security Council (out of fifteen) who oppose the rush to war.

I can understand not knowing the meaning of a big, hard word like "unilateralism." But "alone"?