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Check out this morning’s Wall Street Journal<\/em> for a nice article on Howard<\/a> by respected political\/culture writer John J. Miller. The Cimmerian<\/em> gets name-checked, and John pits three words of my conservative optimism against a burst of Rusty Burke’s liberal pessimism. Fun for the whole family.<\/p>\n John is National Political Reporter for the National Review<\/em><\/a>, and does a lot of freelance writing for the WSJ<\/em> and other publications. Last year he wrote a good article about Lovecraft in the same paper, which you can read here<\/a>, while in 2002 the WSJ<\/em> published his piece on Christian values in Tolkien’s Middle Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n As for the National Review<\/em>, it always has solid pop-culture material — read John’s take on Dungeons & Dragons, his column on C. S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters<\/em>, some thoughts on the ghost stories of Russell Kirk, or browse through his excellent coverage about last year’s Narnia craze:<\/p>\n Back to Narnia <\/p>\n Narnian Order<\/p>\n The Lion King<\/p>\n X-Mas in Narnia<\/p>\n Getting Howard some good press in one of the nation’s most prestigious newspapers serves as a nice bookend to January’s coverage of him<\/a> in The Washington Post<\/em> by Pulitzer Prize winning critic Michael Dirda, and is a fine way to wrap up the REH centennial. Thanks, John.<\/p>\n UPDATE:<\/strong> John also blurbed his article and this website at National Review<\/em>‘s The Corner, one of the cooler conservative blogs out there. Check it out.<\/p>\n