Commentary’s new blog Contentions continues to take advantage of its access to Commentary’s regular contributors. Here, for example, is Joshua Muravchik commenting on Putin’s talk last week in Munich:
Move over, Borat. The hottest new voice in comedy is Vladimir Putin, otherwise known as the man who saved Russia from freedom and democracy. Putin convulsed his audience at the Munich Conference on Security with this sparkling one-liner:
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