The late Peter Sedgwick—whose name is still a talisman of the noble libertarian Left—helped me to develop the puny sinews with which I combated the Cockburn school. He also helped me to recognize a certain 'Orwellianism' as a thread of Ariadne in the writing of our time.
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The late Claud Cockburn, one of the most generous and charming men I have ever encountered, exposed me to the anti-Orwellian view of the Spanish War and other matters when I was twenty years old, and very patiently taught me more than he probably suspected about how to argue dialectically.
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What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as the brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.
["Minority Report," Nation, 10/21/91]
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Antonia Hitchens reports from the D.C. Central Detention Facility, which has held some of the January 6th rioters for the past several years. It became a site of celebration and frustration after President Trump pardoned more than 1,500 of them.
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No kidding, this is a line of dialogue from a 1970 movie funded by the Russian government.
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It always makes me suspicious when you have these “apolitical” businessmen saying:
“I just wanna put the country back on its feet and restore incentives…If the country could be run like USA Inc…with a real can-do guy....”
There’s a whiff of fascism to that, I think.
