Zoe Heller on Arianna Stassinopoulos (Huffington)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Feb 9 10:19:44 PST 2001


Michael Pollak wrote:


>I completely agree. But people who are both economically and socially
>libertarian end up roughly in the center on today's spectrum, no? Not
>avatars, but not beyond the pale, if they were hosting a popular event and
>gave you a forum. Which is to say, not to be lumped together under a
>common rubric with John Birchers and Pat Buchanan.

I agree with the last; libertarians aren't crypto-nazis.

What's a bit beyond the pale, as far as the mainstream goes, is promoting drug legalization - that's where you separate the corporate libertarians from the more authentic kind.


>BTW, out of curiousity, are her politics much different from Jesse
>Ventura's? The basic pitch seems the same, although I don't know as much
>about the latter's specifics.

I think she can read & write.

Doug



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