TNR Online | Carvin' the Bird by Leon Wieseltier (On the Ken Burns PBS doc.)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jan 19 11:51:42 PST 2001


Michael Pugliese wrote:


> Heh, the last time I fwded. some Wieseltier (the slam of Cornel West) I
>got some heat!
>(Leon's slam of E.P. Thompson [with a blurb by Henry K.] in his book on
>nuclear strategy and the Freeze, was a lowpoint in his stuff. At the same
>time, Thompson was being attacked by types from the Soviet Peace Council,
>along comes Wieseltier to accuse , Thompson of pro-Soviet symps!)
>
>http://www.thenewrepublic.com/012201/wieseltier012201.html

"But jazz for Burns is, above all, America." Gag.

Doug



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