----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 7:42 PM Subject: Re: Walzer on the Left
> You don't seem to have noticed the title. (It's "The Chorus and
> Cassandra.")
LOL. I'm having a rough day. Earlier, I substituted "abstinence" for "obstinence."
> I meant to refer to the vagaries of Hitchens' views: he of
> course thought that Clinton was eminently impeachable but also attacked
> Chomsky on the assault on Afghanistan. Yet even he knew that the charges
> against Chomsky about Cambodia were malign nonsense.
80's Hitch and neo-Hitch shouldn't be confused with one another.
> And I do agree that
> there is something sophomoric about the attack. --CGE
Were the attacks "malign nonsense" or merely "sophomoric?"
-- Luke