Economist hit on Naomi Klein

[Patrick Bond]

... by twenty-something kids fresh from Oxbridge. The last couple here in Jo'burg -- Sebastian Mallaby and Adam Roberts -- were/are classic cases. I debated Roberts a few weeks ago at the W$$D preps for journalists and he pushed yesterday's conventional wisdom: that Mbeki was good for democracy in Africa. One word from me -- Zimbabwe -- brought a nice blush to his face.

   Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: 

    James Fallows had a very nice piece on the Washington Post a few 

    years ago on the American cult of The Economist - it appealed to 

    insecure Americans who ju loved that dose of English snobbery and 

    know-it-all-ism. Yawn.
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