Newt and Camus | Michael Tomasky

Remember how I mentioned a few days ago that Newt Gingrich is always making seemingly hifalutin historical allusions that fool people into thinking he's deep?

Well, take a guess at the title of a talk he gave at the American Enterprise Institute yesterday. Ready? No? Okay. It was America at Risk: Camus, National Security and Afghanistan. I kid you not.

Joshua Keating of Foreign Policy was intrigued but came away disappointed:

The only reference to Camus in the entire hour-long speech was one...