“Only once in 430 pages filled with lurid anecdotes did my skeptical antennas start to twitch. [Lawrence] Wright asserts that someone was punished by being ‘made to run around a pole in the desert for 12 hours a day, until his teeth fell out.’ Really? That’s the first thing that happens when you run in circles in the desert all day? I need to know more. How many days are we talking about? Did they let him floss?” – Mike Kinsley, being Mike Kinsley.