JustASC

In my column this week, I review Philip Roth’s latest novel:

Indignation is not a great book, but it is an evocative one. And it arrives as America is about to conclude what has seemed like a generational battle as much as a political one. Obama, 47, defines service in the terms of the community organizer-turned-academic-turned-politician that he is. McCain, 72, reminds crowds that he has been fighting for America since he was 17, “and I have the scars to prove it.”

Indignation doesn’t take sides, but acknowledges the paths that open and close for young men – ball field and battlefield, classroom and theater of war. It’s about America at one crossroads, and it appears with America at another

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