Leftists Who Love the War Too Much
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Leftists Who Love the War Too Much
October 30 - November 5, 2002
Richard Goldstein
>reil Marcus is a discerning radical humanist. So it was a shock to pick up
the progressive paper First of the Month and find him dissing leftist
intellectuals for their skepticism about the war on terror. Marcus is not the
only member of the counterculturati to find the hawk within. Dan Savage, the
shoot-from-the-hip sex columnist, has lately become hip to the shoot. Then
there's Christopher Hitchens, the ex-socialist who has found an occasion in
9-11 to revise his ideological profile. He is now a latter-day incarnation of
the Cold War liberal. Hitchens's recent homage to George Orwell includes a
remarkable defense of his work for the British government during the McCarthy
era, when Orwell supplied lists of suspected com-symps, dutifully noting who
was homosexual—or Jewish. Hey, says Hitchens, Orwell wasn't lying. [...]
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0244/goldstein.php
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