On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:06:33 -0600 Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes:
>
>
> 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
> >
Yes, and Dwight seems to have been proud of having been insulted directly by the Old Man, since he cited that incident any number of times afterwards.
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