Alterman on Nation cruise

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jan 9 01:36:21 PST 1999


Peter Kilander wrote:


>Eric Alterman wrote this little piece on The Nation cruise for the Jan. 11th
>issue of The New Yorker.
>
>Floating limousine liberals play shuffleboard.
>
>When Victor Navasky and a group of partners first took over *The Nation* and
>its accompanying debts twenty years ago, the bearded scholar of McCarthyism
>says, two prospects would have been "utterly unthinkable": "The first was
>that the Soviet Union would become 'the former Soviet Union' in my lifetime,
>and the second was that *The Nation* would ever sponsor a Caribbean cruise."
>That was then. Nowadays, of course, a magazine without a cruise is like a
>Muscovite without a stockbroker.

Oh how cute, Eric. Russians are hoarding potatoes and dying young in great numbers. Callous bastard.

Doug



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