The paper and the man who wrote it are brilliant, I find. But when I then managed to know more about Orson Scott Card, a man I didn’t heard of before reading this article, I discovered that he, all at the same time, admires George Bush, expresses much praise and respect for George Bush’s policy, says he is Democrat, is against homosexuality and premarital sex, is pro-gun control, is anti-NRA, is highly critical of free-market capitalism, is Mormon, and once stated “The Democratic Party ought to be standing as the bulwark of the little guy against big money and rapacious free-market capitalism, here and abroad. After all, the Republicans seem to be dominated by their own group of insane utopians (….)”

With all due respect for the performance of Orson Scott Card’s insights and analysis about the troubles in the Middle East, how can a man manage to be that contradictory in his positions and beliefs to such extent as to make me wondering whether two different personalities would inhabit his mind? Orson Scott Card is a puzzling person, indeed. His stances are so controversial that I would class him “somewhere” between men such as Bertrand Russell and Herbert Marcuse.