E.P. Thompson's search for a new popular front: Stefan Collini in @BooksandtheArts on a new biography of Thompsonhttps://www.thenation.com/article/e-p-thompsons-search-for-a-new-popular-front/ …
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Replying to @BooksandtheArts @ChaseMadar
Midge Decter once described him to me as "gorgeous". I wrote very critical piece onhim for Commentary, which she liked, but she added.. .
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Replying to @ScottMcConnell9 @BooksandtheArts
Yo, how can you leave me hanging here?
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Replying to @ChaseMadar @BooksandtheArts
No that was the point. "Great piece. Of course he's gorgeous." is what she said.
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Replying to @ScottMcConnell9 @BooksandtheArts
Ach, you're too subtle for me. I would have thought Midge would have applauded Thompson's polemic against Althusserian structuralism? jk
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I think there's a fair bit for conservatives to admire in Poverty of Theory -- the insistence on history as an empirical enterprise.
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Yes. Thompson's views attractive on many things, but we were Cold Warriors then, he was an opponent. He might have become a paleocon, no?
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Hard for me to imagine the full paleocon, but he would've happily broken bread with Back Porch Republic types.
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