Zoe Heller on Arianna Stassinopoulos (Huffington)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Feb 9 07:30:52 PST 2001


Michael Pollak wrote:


>I thought for a classical right wing populist in your sense, one needed a
>combination of anti-elitism, ethnic scapegoating and conspiracy theory.
>Are you saying that Arianna has elements 2 and 3? Or that all you need is
>element 1, plus not being a leftist, to be beyond the pale?

Arianna seems like a pretty consistent libertarian to me. The stuff on her website <http://www.overthrowthegov.com> - with all its stuff about voluntarism - looks like she hasn't moved all that far from her Olasky days. I guess Marc Cooper is starstruck.

Doug



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