The Dialectics of Sexual McCarthyism

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Sat Jun 2 11:07:19 PDT 2001


Yeah, who is this Andrew Sullivan? And can anyone give me a good reason why anyone should know of his existence and what he is? Is he any relation to John L. or to the author of the Sullivan Principles?

Carrol

Heh, not that I'd expect you to have ever picked up a copy of The New Republic, but...Andrew is a former editor of TNR. Also was along with William S. Burroughs a poster boy in The Gap ads on MUNI bustop structures here in S.F. You must never watch pundit shows or Charlie Rose. (Who?) www.andrewsullivan.com

Tory, Catholic, studied under Harvey "C minus" Mansfield at Harvard. Has written at least two books, the earlier one, is a counterpoint to Urvashi Vaid volume. Compares and contrasts, "liberationist" (cultural radicals), liberal assimimilationists, conservative assimilationists and hard right "prohibitionists". " Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality, " Pb., 1996.
>From Adam Mars-Jones - London Review of Books
Sullivan defines conservatism and liberalism with some care, and his account of these ideologies is relatively lucid. . . . When he deals with the prohibitionists, . . . his tone is never less than conciliatory, and often craven. It would be a different matter if he was explicitly writing from a Catholic point of view. . . . In context, though, the chapter on prohibitionists is simply grotesque to read, with Sullivan apparently fighting the urge to genuflect. He presents a slowly crumbling orthodoxy of intolerance as a fearless advance into the light.

Michael Pugliese



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