Predictable …

… ‘100 Poems - Old and New,’ by Rudyard Kipling - NYTimes.com. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The trouble with Kipling is deeper than politics. The sympathetic eye and rough grace of his stories cannot distract from the vulgarity of the poems or his now mortifying views of empire.

Poor Kipling. He couldn't help being alive decades before he could share William Logan's enlightened view of everything.