Not Exactly A Review: Edward Curtin has turned in something good for readers of Behind the Curtain (and other blogs) to chew on about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s book The Real Anthony Fauci, but he is calling it a “meditation.” HERE it is,  titled “Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.’s Heroic Resistance to the CIA’s Continuing Covid Coup d’Etat.” I recommend it, along with (as of last night) the 38 “comments.”

Perhaps at this point Curtin, something of a polymath at least in the social sciences whose main subject in academia was sociology, realized that he needed to spend more time with the 450-page tome, now a best-seller, before turning out a full-fledged review.

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Clarification, If One Is Needed: Last week, HERE, I “nominated” New Yorker contributor Michael Spector to review The Real Anthony Fauci for that magazine. He had written a piece headed something like “America’s Doctor” on Fauci in the spring of 2020, highly favorable to him, but that was before the new experimental vaccines had been rolled out and billions of people worldwide were being inoculated with them. Spector, being an Establishment figure (to the extent that he writes for an Establishment publication) and being on the adjunct faculty of Stanford, where he lectures on topics related to those Kennedy tackles, as well as someone who (like Kennedy) has known the doctor for decades and (unlike Kennedy) apparently thinks highly of him, should be ideal. He should be able to readably and knowledgeably critique the book and has probably read it by now. We’ll see if he and The New Yorker agree. (Fat chance? That’s what many of RFKJr.’s admirers including publisher Tony Lyons and Curtin, may think; would they be right?)

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Other Possible Periodicals to Publish a Review: Ideally, The New York Review of Books or The London Review of Books would have the space to allow for a thoughtful and fair review and the kind of readership to read it. Harper’s Magazine would, too. The latter publication, decades ago, turned over an entire issue to a single topic or author, so this could be an option for it. The question is, in the world as it is with the news media and commentariat seemingly muzzled on certain topics, would any of this be possible? We should know before long.

— Mark Channing Miller