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Newspaper commentary, a dying art (see Jacob Weisberg's on its last great), is nowadays dominated by sententiousness, not satire.
Tanenhaus accuses Chambers of having inadvertently instigated McCarthyism, and "shows us Chambers' paranoia, his introversion, his sententiousness" (Stephen Koch, the Wall Street Journal ). (Also, see Slate's mildly critical review by Ann Douglas.)