Peggy Noonan enters the god-blogosphere, kindof, writing her weekly Wall Street Journal column “blog-style,” and inviting readers to guess the theme connecting her musings on Hunter Thompson’s death (“an occasion for compassion” and “a sense of universal idiocy”); Hillary Clinton’s religious reference-dropping; and her pick for “patron saint of the internet” (St. Joseph Cupertino, described as a lovable idiot with more heart than brains, who “flew through the air, lifted by truth,” undeterred by the elite establishment). (Hint: It’s God.) The metaphor suffers a bit though in Noonan’s defense of Harvard President Larry Summers, whom she likens to a brave reformer trapped within the “Medieval cloisters” that are American academia. Cloisters, Noonan elaborates, that lack “the messy God part,” and are peopled by old monks of the left and wilting “young nuns of leftist deconstructionism” who listen to sad indie-rock, get “hysterical at the antichrist of a new idea,” and wish to “exorcise Summers from their midst.” What’s Summers’ antichrist of a new idea? According to Noonan, he’s defending the concept that God made us all different (“to keep things interesting”) and that our differences should be preserved to reflect God’s “infinite variety.” Whether or not that’s really what Summers was getting at, divinely-ordained gender roles doesn’t seem like a particularly “new” idea. But then again, neither is writing off any female criticism as feminist “hysteria” (oh, that wandering womb). Maybe Noonan’s going by the fashion truism, “everything old is new again.”