Hitchens as the love child of Safire

[Brad DeLong]

>Coy, very coy. Outdoes me in evasiveness even. So where do you stand 
>on civil liberties, absolute control by Empire, etc.?
>
>I ask because I just had yet another run-in, at the CUNY 
>globalization conference, with people who heard my claims about the 
>contradictory nature of capitalism to be nothing but an apology. 
>Silvia Federici, my panel-mate, was going on about how it's been 
>nothing but pauperization since the day Capital was born, how it's 
>been unmitigated hell for women, social indicators keep going 
>down... I said, well, it's not all like that - women can find wage 
>labor liberating (even admidst exploitation) when it's compared to 
>prostitution or rural patriarchy, that life expectancies have risen 
>across much of the globe, that more people can read than ever. She 
>would have none of it, and about half the audience was with her. The 
>ISO, Gott sei dank, was there in force and on my side.
>
>Doug

Where does she come from? And does she really know nothing about how 
her great-great grandmothers lived?

Brad DeLong