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Ponnuru Gets Personal

By FishbowlDC on May 24, 2006 3:34 PM

National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru is a lot of things, but don’t be mistaken, a Vulcan is not one of them.

In an interview with Doublethink‘s Jason Mattera, the author of Party of Death, (“a study of the Democratic party’s affinity for abortion, euthanasia, and what Pope John Paul II called the ‘culture of death’”) reveals some details to his own back story.

Some of the more interesting snippets:

  • The youngest of three brothers, Ponnuru was agnostic until 1996. That’s when he read Patrick Glynn’s article “Beyond the Death of God” in National Review. This article, he says, “made him a theist.”

  • Ponnuru insists, “I’m not a conservative Catholic. I am conservative and a Catholic.” He is not an orthodox Catholic.

  • He uses the expression “being graduated” instead of the more familiar, but inaccurate “I graduated.”

  • He has always considered himself an economic conservative, having become a social conservative only after joining National Review.

  • Jonah Goldberg once asked rhetorically, “Is Ramesh a Vulcan?” To which Goldberg responded, “I don’t think so, but it’s a fair question.”

  • Ponnuru claims to have a “soft touch, but it rarely comes out in my columns.”

  • Ponnuru apparently thinks his “soft touch” manifests itself as a “soft spot” on occasion, at least in the way he responds to criticisms levied against his columns.

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