Hitchens on Horowitz (was: Re: Michael Moore's Awful Truth)

Peter Kilander peterk at enteract.com
Sat Mar 6 15:50:41 PST 1999



>Peter Kilander wrote:
>> David Horowitz and Peter Collier, former editors of Ramparts
>> They make a good fit with the
>> diagnosis offered by Isaac Deutscher in his 1950 book The God That
Failed.
>> Speaking of a certain kind of former Communist, Deutscher wrote:
>> "He is haunted by a vague sense that he has betrayed either his former
>> ideals or the ideals of bourgeois society; like Koestler,
>
>isn't above Koestler's book (I recall reading it as such)?...in any
>event, as I've suggested before (maybe even on this list), Koestler
>was tragedy, Horowitz is farce...Michael Hoover

Sorry, I mis-typed. It should have read "in his 1950 review of The God That Failed."



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