[oblomov]

"...like the caricatures one used to see of girls with huge Bambi-like eyes. "

Surely, Tyrrell is referring to the unsettling, trash-culture works of Walter and Margaret Keane. A truly skilled Mencken imitator would have included the now-obscure reference.

Is it just me, or does Tyrrell's prose of the past few years seem to be of a lower quality than his writing from the 70s, 80s, and 90s?

[Graymatter]

Is it just me, or does Tyrrell's prose of the past few years seem to be of a lower quality than his writing from the 70s, 80s, and 90s?

I can play time capsule here. I used to read him in the 70's, then quit cold before the Carter years were over.

He has indeed diminished in quality.

[Yardstick]

William F. Buckley introduced us to “tergiversations” years ago.

[jla]

Is it just me, or does Tyrrell's prose of the past few years seem to be of a lower quality than his writing from the 70s, 80s, and 90s?

I'm genuinely surprised to read this. If not better, it certainly is not a scintilla worse. RET stands on a lofty plane alone from his peers.