Fortunately, this little book is poorly written. If it were more coherent, it might be dangerous. Paul Berman is associated with Dissent, but he has little of that distinguished independent left journal’s clarity. His work is stylistically clumsy, marred by pretension and intellectual name [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Dissent is a lousy journal. I don’t know why this writer attributes it with any virtues at all. I think it’s a phoney leftwing mag - probably a psy op.
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