Friday, June 17, 2011

"Can There Be a Decent Left?"

Power Line - Can There Be a Decent Left, Revisited

Excerpt:

"And yet, the leftist critique--most clearly, I think, from the Vietnam years forward (from the time of 'Amerika,' Viet Cong flags, and breathless trips to the North)--has been stupid, overwrought, grossly inaccurate. It is the product of what Philip Roth, in his novel I Married a Communist, aptly described as 'the combination of embitterment and not thinking.' The left has lost its bearings. Why?"

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