NC gets personal

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Dec 10 11:06:33 PST 2001


Justin Schwartz wrote:
>
> >>Doug
> >
> >Then again, onetime Fortune writer Dwight Macdonald notes in his
> >correspondence that Henry Luce preferred hiring leftists for his editorial
> >staff because he felt that Republicans couldn't write.
> >
> >

Wasn't it in respect to Macdonald that Trotsky made an observation to the effect that everyone has a right to be a damn fool at times but that Macdonald abused the privilege -- or something like that?

Carrol
>
> Or former leftists, like Whittaker Chambers. Former leftists are also
> leading figures among the neocons, people like Irving Kristol. Btw, the
> Economist hired Isaac Deutscher as its Russia editor in the 1960s. jks
>
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