https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/10/21/the-ows-virus-dangerous-to-your-health-highly-contagious/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 08:17:33 -0400<![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never seen The Andromeda Strain, but I gather the plot revolves around a deadly and highly contagious virus from another planet that&#8217;s been let loose on earth. Contemplating the hysteria that has greeted the Occupy Wall Street protests, I begin to wonder if a less deadly but no less contagious virus hasn&#8217;t been let loose among the left-liberal commentariat. The virus &#8212; call it the OWS virus &#8212; doesn&#8217;t kill, it merely mentally maims its victims. The chief symptom is a certain childish senility fueled by unassailable sensations of grandiosity. I minuted some yesterday in &#8220;The 99-Percent Solution.&#8221; The pièce de la résistance of that opus was doubtless the comment emitted by Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for The New York Times, that there&#8217;s a deep filiation between the spoiled children making a nuisance of themselves in Zuccotti Park and the events in Tahrir Square, Cairo, last winter. And Tahrir Square was only the first droplet in Mr. Kimmelman&#8217;s incontinent drivel. &#8220;Kent State, Tiananmen Square, the Berlin Wall,&#8221; he gushes:]]>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:44:31 -0400<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2011/10/21/the-ows-virus-dangerous-to-your-health-highly-contagious-n116669