"The Waterworld of White Self Pity"

Slate gives us Christopher Hitchens' view of Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington D.C. this past weekend. Slate's accompanying video bolsters Hitchens' observation that like the rally, Beck supporters are vague and undirected:

Until recently, the tendency has been to think of this rather than to speak of it—or to speak of it very delicately, lest the hard-won ideal of diversity be imperiled. But nobody with any feeling for the zeitgeist can avoid noticing the symptoms of white unease and the additionally uneasy forms that its expression is beginning to take.