Noncontradiction

[Justin Schwartz]

>As Ella Taylor wrote in the LA Weekly piece on KPFK:
>
>>SEVERAL YEARS AGO I WENT HIKING IN Anza-Borrego with a group of
>>middle-aged leftist women like myself -- or so I fondly imagined.
>>When we stopped to rest, I produced a copy of The New Republic, and
>>was immediately hauled over the coals by a woman who professed
>>herself shocked that I would lower myself to read such a right-wing
>>rag. I told her I didn't see how I could expand my critical thinking
>>if I only read stuff I already agreed with. Off she flounced in a
>>huff, leaving me to imagine her reaction had I brought along the
>>National Review.
>

Bertand Russell recommended taking two papers, one of which was opposed to 
your normal political leanings, whatever they were. He pointed out that if 
you and it had inconssitent views on a subject, both of you could bewrong, 
but it was not possible taht both of you were right.

jks (who takes The Economist and the WSJ as well as the Nation, MR, NLR, 
S&S, Dollars & Sense and of course LBO and Against the Current).

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