Fatal faction

Interview | Some Democrats position themselves as moderates on abortion, but author Ramesh Ponnuru says don’t be fooled | Marvin Olasky

Publishers will tell anyone who asks that books on abortion are typically hard to sell. (I know, I've written two that earned royalties fit for a duke—but I'm glad I did them.) Most people don't want to read about the gruesome subject, and some feel that after two centuries of considerable abortion in America—with massive numbers during the last 34 years of national legality—not much more needs to be said.

So give National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru credit for writing a new abortion book, and give Regnery credit for publishing it—and for uniting the abortion genre with one that has been successful for the company, the anti-liberal political genre. The title and subtitle—The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life—tell it all, except for one aspect: Ponnuru writes well.