1. All this talk in the conservative press (like National Review) about Ilhan Omar being an ungrateful immigrant reminded me of Joseph Sobran complaining about ungrateful African-Americans in National Review in 1979.pic.twitter.com/32327viCqz
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4. Sobran, of course, was someone whose racism bothered even his National Review colleagues when he started working at the magazine in the 1970s (although they kept him on for 2 decades).https://twitter.com/Joshua_A_Tait/status/1133362818298728448 …
5. In 1986, Sobran praised Instauration: "an often brilliant magazine, covering a beat nobody else will touch, & doing so with intelligence, wide-ranging observation & bitter wit. It is openly and almost unremittingly hostile to blacks, Jews, and Mexican & Oriental immigrants.''
But by the late 60s The National Review had abandoned racism
Thank you for that! I only knew about his intransigeant work on mass culture, and this puts it in a meaningful context (esp. when compared to Dwight Macdonald's superficially similar position on culture)
S#aaa’n/b. Soloołon
Whoa. I'd only been acquainted with van den Haag as a death penalty fanatic. Given the quality of his pro-DP arguments, this is not a surprise.
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