Worse, you have unfairly twisted my column into some right-wing apologia, which it is not.

FORBES: Epitaph for the USA: We Pondered Everything Without Resolution

None of this should be taken as an apologia pro Bush.

ECONOMIST: LEXINGTON

And it won't be because of President Obama's grotesque Cairo apologia.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Bye-bye, Babylon

While Johnson loves America, his book is no Pollyannaish apologia.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

We hear from former trading vice-president of Lehman's, Larry McDonald, who has written an insider's view of the systemic problems within the bank in his literary apologia "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers".

BBC: This week: Culture and the crash

While it is not known for sure whether Britten ever became sexually involved with any of the boys whom he befriended throughout his adult life, his final opera, a stage version of Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" (1973), has been interpreted as a not-so-veiled apologia for those who feel similar desires.

WSJ: Benjamin Britten | Known but Not Loved | Sightings by Terry Teachout