[lbo-talk] Re: Blaming the lobby

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Wed May 3 08:30:48 PDT 2006



>From: "Julio Huato" <juliohuato at gmail.com>
>
>Again, I recommend Peter Beinart's article in the NYT Magazine.

No thanks. I glanced at the article and saw that Beinart's patron saint is Reinhold Niebuhr -- article photo caption: "Reinhold Niebuhr: A liberal for the ages. Neibuhr was a theologian and an intellectual hero to postwar Democrats" -- so I promptly concluded the article was a crock. Neibuhr is a prime example of the liberal as Jekyll & Hyde -- a rampaging anticommunist one minute, a hand-wringing critic of the consumerist society the next. Life's too short to spend any of it contemplating the mare's nest of Niebuhr's thinking.


>... I'm not endorsing Beinart's views. I think of his as an
>effort to articulate a better, lasting, more workable, more stable
>approach for U.S. capitalism to retain its international hegemony.

No doubt. I see Beinart's piece now ranks #4 on the NY Times "most-emailed" list. It doesn't need any more attention than it's getting already.

Carl



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