Suskind's "Without a Doubt"

If you haven't read Ron Suskind's article "Without a Doubt" in Sunday's NYT magazine, then do it soon. Trust me, you absolutely positively do not want to miss this.

Much of what's in there is new, but much is consistent with hypotheses that many people have already been floating about what makes W tick.

Most interesting to me is confirmation that we really are dealing with a kind of relativist or postmodernist administration. Since the article is primarily about Bush's theism, you might find that odd, but many common versions of theism are just versions of subjectivism writ large. As Suskind discovers, you and I, dear reader, are thought of as enemies of the administration because we are "reality-based." That is, we worry about the facts and the evidence. Bush and co. do not. They apparently govern via some combination of faith, Bush's "instinct," and some quasi-relativist beliefs about the maleability of reality.

Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.

More on this later.