believe it or not, this is from the nyt sunday book review.

Khanna’s fear-mongering echoes Robert D. Kaplan’s alarmism in “The Coming Anarchy,” and his cutesy images and painful wordplay recall the worst of Thomas L. Friedman’s columns. So much then for the comparison to the theories of Samuel Huntington and Francis Fukuyama that some have been promoting, and so much for the promise of what his publisher calls a “single paradigm necessary to capture the emerging 21st-century world.”

i have to say: this renews my respect for the times, which does do many excellent things. but that they would publish such a pointed criticism of one of their own top people is unusual for almost any publication at that level, and they are to commended for including such a flamboyant flourish, subversive to themselves.