[lbo-talk] Chris Hedges comes out as socialist

[Dorene Cornwell]

I used to dabble both occasionally in the National Review and more
frequently in the American Spectator. The latter especially had interesting
writers, by which I mean both formulation of ideas and craft of writing.
I am afraid I also would not defer to Chomsky about choice of reading
material.

DC

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:


>  There are very few people on the left who really understand how the
>>  right thinks at all, or even takes the right seriously as thinkers.
>>
>
> In the early FAIR days, I read everything I could on the right (I was
> tweaked for reading The American Spectator in the office), including back
> issues of the National  Review and The Freeman at the NYPL, which also
> carried later versions of the American Mercury, long after Mencken left,
> when it became a Birchite pub. Speaking of which, I worked for Birchers for
> over 6 years, and had many long conversations with them. I dated an
> Objectivist, and had correspondence with weirdo libertarian writers like
> Samuel L. Konkin III. I mentioned this once to Chomsky, who said I was
> wasting my time with these people, whom he thought were strangely unique on
> the world stage. Precisely my reason for reading/speaking with them.
>
> Dennis
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