Alterman & Lilla lovefest

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>[It's hard to decide who's more shallow and puerile in this, the
>interviewer or the interviewee. Curious alliance between a Nation
>honcho and the neocons here.]
>
>New York Times - November 10, 2001
>
>Q & A
>
>Why Are Deep Thinkers Shallow About Tyranny?
>
>Mark Lilla, a professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the
>University of Chicago, recently published "The Reckless Mind:
>Intellectuals in Politics," about how writers and intellectuals have
>ended up justifying communism, fascism and other tyrannies. Eric
>Alterman spoke with him.
>
>[snip]
>
>... if we are not thinking we are not really alive.

QED -- the Night of the Living Dead, NYT-style.

Carl

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