The famously aggressive gossip columnists at the New York Post have come out swinging against Washington Post arts writer Philip Kennicott, following Kennicott’s scathing review of a new book about the effort to stop the looting of Iraq’s national treasures and mount a recovery effort following the American invasion. The Post calls the review “an unprovoked hatchet job… on Manhattan Assistant DA-turned-war-hero Matthew Bogdanos” and Bogdanos himself is quoted asking “What has that man [Kennicott] ever done for ‘culture?'”