Leon Wieseltier, attacking Daniel Dennett's recently published critique of religion, Breaking the Spell, in The New York Times Book Review:

...Dennett's book is also a document of the intellectual havoc of our infamous polarization, with its widespread and deeply damaging assumption that the most extreme statement of an idea is its most genuine statement.

It's odd to be lectured on intemperate language by a man who opened his review of Nicholson Baker's anti-Bush novel Checkpoint with the words "This scummy little book...."